Re: How can I recover a gnumeric file?

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort free fr>]

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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