.odt files are zipped, just add the extension .zip and unzip as
suggested (if your file is an odt file that is).
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2005/11/19, Makro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> mm unzip the file with unzip??? that not make sense...the file is not 
> zipped....
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Makro
>   To: users@openoffice.org
>   Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:04 PM
>   Subject: problems opening oo document
>
>
>   Hello
>
>   I got this weird problem:
>
>   I got a document that i first write in MSword using Winxp, then i change to 
> Openoffice 1.1 using Debian sarge, that was cool, no problems, until this 
> happen: in my linux partition i got the winxp mounted so the original 
> document was always in the winxp partition , i open it in linux using 
> openoffice and save the changes in the winxp partition this don`t give me any 
> problems, but , then happens the bad thing, a problem with the winxp 
> partition, so what i do, from linux i take all the files i need and make a 
> backup in a CD, okay, fine all is in the CD, no problem, then i just delete 
> the winxp partition and stay with linux...BUT when i try to open the 
> openoffice document that i was working that is in the CD ...it comes a window 
> asking me for the character set of the document..i try every set..and nothing 
> work!!!, so now i got a document full of weird symbols, i can`t read it, so i 
> dunno what to do, other documents seems not altered...so now the big 
> question...how can i recover my document? what can i do if every set of 
> character only gives me garbage?
>
>   hope you can help me
>
>   thanks in advance
>
>   M.
>

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