Re: Problem opening file in 1.1.16

[Patrick Kellaher <kalmite cox net>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:00, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:44:55PM -0700, Patrick Kellaher wrote:
> > I had a file saved in the generic XML gnumeric format and at one point
> > when I was doing a Save As... I mistakenly choose the Experimental
> > Gnumeric XML format.  I am now unable to open the file.  I select the
> > file for opening and hit ok, but then the program just freezes.  Is
> > there anyway to convert the file back to the normal XML format?
>
> You _saved_ using the experimental XML ??
> I'm sorry to say that there is no way to recover.  That method is
> intended to save in the native xml format but using a faster more
> efficient method.  It is also incomplete !  Only a small fraction of
> the data is saved.  The experimental reader should be fine, but the
> data loss on export is too great to recover.
>
> That method should have been disabled in the release.
> Apologies,
>     Jody

Oh well, luckily I have been exporting it to HTML and XHTML, although
those two weren't as up to date as the main file.  I was able to do a
Save As.. in the Experimental XML, if it helps I am using the binary
package from Dropline Gnome (a Slackware Gnome suite/package).


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Patrick Kellaher <kalmite cox net>