Re: file conversion / Unreadable files ?!

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:03:20PM +1030, Marc Tresse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone please help me with the following problem ?
>
> The attached file has been created with the
> Gnumerics Spreadsheet for Debian Linux.
>
> I copied it onto a floppy disk when I left the
> company I worked for and now I can't open it
> anymore. (I tried a friend's Gnumeric Spreadsheet
> and also MS Excel but the format is not recognized)
>
> Is the file is corrupted or still intact?
> More importantly: How can I recover the data ?
>
> Any advice or help would be highly appreciated!

Sorry for the long delay, the mailing list had a bit of a back log.

The file was indeed created by gnumeric, but it was mis-named.  It
is Gnumeric's native format, gzipped xml.  Rename it to
    finances.gnumeric
and things will work,