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2010 Feb 20 (Sat)

OpenOffice and corrupt file
Tonight I was continuing work on my BTSA documents and I panicked for a few minutes because when I tried to open one of my files and OpenOffice gave me an error:

The file 'file.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. Should OpenOffice.org repair the file?
Naturally, I did want OO to repair the file, but that failed as well:
The file 'file.odt' could not be repaired and therefore cannot be opened.
So I google'd quickly to see if others had the same problem and found this page among others which goes through one way to solve it. But that seemed like quite a bit of work for just getting the text and no formatting. The BTSA documents are specially formatted, so it would really suck to have to replicate all the formatting again. On a hope, I thought I'd try AbiWord, and voila!, it worked. I tried to export a copy so that OO could open it, but OO croaked again. Anyway, I'll just be using AbiWord from now on, since I don't really use OpenOffice for anything else, really. Thank you, AbiWord developers! :-D

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