Re: Gnumeric 1.0.12 crash while sorting, file corruption

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:23:08AM -0400, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> Gnumeric 1.0.12 (on Gentoo Linux) just crashed, apparently while
> sorting a table,
> and the file is now unopenable -- Gnumeric puts up a little notice
> saying that it is not an OLE file, "Sorry, the Management".
>
> I'd be less piteous about this, except that it was my wife's file,
> with several hours of work in it :-<.
>
> I'm interested at the moment in trying to get the data out of this
> file.  Looking at it with hexdump shows that the file is not
> completely scrambled; it seems to have a lot of real data in it.  (It
> was an .xls file.) But I know nothing about the .xls format.  Does
> anyone have any pointers about how I might be able to get real data
> out of this file?
>
> If anyone is interested in looking at the actual file -- it isn't
> large -- I can send it off list.  (It contains some address
> information, so I'd rather not post it.)

Send me a copy and I'll have a look.  The fact that its non-empty is
encouraging.