Re: How can I recover a gnumeric file?

[Pete Crite <hypocrite lawyer com>]

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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