Re: recovering from gnumeric crash using .gsf-save-* file

["Morten Welinder" <mwelinder gmail com>]

> unfortunately, this doesn't work: gunzip says "not in gzip format".  the
> size of the file is within less than 0.1 percent of the original .xls
> file, which leads me to think that it's in that format (or close to it).
> but neither gnumeric nor ooffice can read it (unsupported format,
> general i/o error, etc.).
>
> what is the .gsf-save-?????? format, anyway?

Oh, you were saving as .xls.  I thought you saved as .gnumeric.
The .gsf-* files are just temporary files that become the final saved
files on success, so yours would be in (truncated) .xls format.

Morten