Thank you so much for that. The new file works fine. It's mainly
raw(ish) data, so styles don't matter very much.

How could this have happened though? I certainly never made those
changes to my file intentionally.

Cheers,
Pete.

On 09/07/13 22:10, Jean Brefort wrote:
> Looks that the sheets are very large: 16384 columns and 1048576 rows,
> and I suppose you don't have terabytes RAM. Changing that to the default
> and removing some StyleRegion nodes extending to rows larger than
> 1000000 made things work much more fluently. I'll send you back the
> fixed file. I just hope I did not accidentally removed a needed style.
>
> Best regards,
> Jean
>
> Le mardi 09 juillet 2013 à 21:26 +1000, Pete Crite a écrit :
>> 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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