Re: Unreadable File in Gnumeric

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2005, Scott Ballantyne wrote:

> I posted a bug report about this, but I am wondering if anyone has had
> this problem and knows of a work around.
>
> I created a file, names, addresses, telephone numbers, that sort of
> thing, and now it won't open. Gnumeric starts to read the file, but
> crashes partway through the reading process...

You might try:

* copy the gnumeric file to (say) mydata.gz
* gunzip mydata.gz
* look at mydata in a text editor or pager and see what
  you've got.

This is on the basis that native gnumeric files are gzipped XML.

Allin Cottrell