Re: How can I recover a gnumeric file?

[Pete Crite <hypocrite lawyer com>]

Thanks for that. I've forwarded the file you you (Jean).

I tried opening the uncompressed version in gnumeric, and I didn't think
it worked. However, about 2–5 minutes later, gnumeric launched with the
file. I tried to "save as" another file, but now it appears to have
frozen again. It's running on two full cores, so I'll wait and see if it
can write the file correctly, but there appears to be some issue with
the file and/or gnumeric at least.

Cheers,
Pete.

On 09/07/13 21:09, Jean Brefort wrote:
> You don't need to compress the gnumeric file again. Gnumeric can read
> uncompressed files. Hard to say why you can't open it without actually
> seeing the contents. If the file does not contain confidential data,
> please file a bug report and attach the file. Otherwise you might send
> it to one of us, and we'll delete it when done.
>
> Best regards,
> Jean
>
> Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 21:01 +1000, Pete Crite a écrit :
> > Great! Thanks for that. The file does gunzip fine. The xml looks normal
> > enough, and validates online [1]. Is there a way to now feed this
> > information back into gnumeric, without having to manually pick through
> > the xml?
> >
> > I tried gzipping this xml again, but this also failed to open in
> > gnumeric. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the new gzipped file
> > differed from the original gnumeric file.
> >
> > When I started with `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric`, I get no messages
> > in the console.
> >
> > Cheers, and thank you for the help so far.
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp
> >
> >
> > On 09/07/13 18:00, Jean Brefort wrote:
> > > I believe it's better to rename to file.gnumeric.gz, then `gunzip
> > > file.gnumeric.gz`.
> > > When you start `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric`, do you get any message
> > > in the console?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Jean
> > >
> > > Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 01:55 -0600, Andreas Guelzow a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > .gnumeric files are compressed xml files. So the first thing to try is
> > > > to uncompress the file. On Kubuntu you may want to rename the
> > > > file.gnumeric to file.zip and see whether the archive manager can open
> > > > the file then. If you are successful then the extracted file will give
> > > > you all the information that is still available.
> > > >
> > > > Andreas 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 17:14 +1000, Pete Crite wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to open a gnumeric file that had worked in the past for me.
> > > > > Opening the file via `xdg-open` fails silently. Opening the file with
> > > > > `gnumeric /path/to/file.gnumeric` freezes the command line and fails
> > > > > silently. Launching Gnumeric first, then opening the file from within
> > > > > the program causes the "Reading file…" progress bar to freeze while loading.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm happy to try and find the cause of this bug, but I have some
> > > > > important files that I need to extract from the gnumeric file urgently.
> > > > > Is there a way to recover the contents of the file? I tried opening with
> > > > > a plain-text editor, but the contents were garbled. Similarly,
> > > > > Libreoffice Calc didn't know about this format.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Pete.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kubuntu 13.04
> > > > > Gnumeric 1.12.1
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