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 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> gnumeric-list mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >> _______________________________________________ >> gnumeric-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
