Re: Gnumeric file went south.

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:10:27PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> All my grades were in a gnumeric file, which file, partly due to
> Gnumeric not having (AFAICT) a way to configure for backups at
> periodic intervals, was lost when my disk filled up.  
Tools -> AutoSave
 
> Even since, when I access that file, gnumeric locks up.  Yet, I cannot
> find any specifications that would help me to track the problem down.  
>
> Is there something I can do?

There are two issues here.
1) recovering your data
2) gnumeric should not lock up no matter what you throw at it.

A possibility would be to attempt to import the sheet using the
experimental SAX based xml parser.  If you can forward a copy of the
sheet we'll have look.

Thanks
    Jody