The TL;DR: The file is not recoverable. Please carry out the search for possible intermediate copy recommended by Brian Barker and Rory O'Farrell.
- Dennis DETAILS Please adopt a practice where you do not edit over an existing copy but always make a new version of the file in case there is a problem and you need to go back and recover from an earlier copy. That is, on opening a file for editing, immediately do a Save As ... with a modified file name that lets you easily tell which is the most recent. It is also good to have a backup somewhere beside on your machine. There are various free utilities/services that will support that and make backups automatically on an external drive or in a cloud service. As reported already, 1. The file is not a correct Zip package for an ODS. This is for two reasons -- a. The first x8000 (32,768) bytes of the file are unrecognizable and even if they include any compressed data of the original file, decompression is not possible because there are no headers and the data appears to begin in the middle. It can't be decompressed without that. b. The file is incomplete. The necessary ending material on a Zip is not present. 2. The recognizable material that is from a Zip does not include any of the content, just preliminary material. This includes a MIME-type record and a thumbnail image that is possibly damaged/incomplete, with no other material at all. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 03:07 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: Numir Idrees <numir.idr...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: ODS File > > At 13:46 06/01/2016 +0400, Numir Idrees wrote: > >this is the file > >if anyone can fix it and send it back , i will thankful for him > > There a few things which can be observed: > > o The file is not a valid zip file, so is not a valid .ods file. (You > probably realised that.) > [ ... ] > o It is quite likely that your system's disk directory has problems, > and you will need to correct these before you continue working - or > you may lose further work. Run your operating system's disk-checking > routine, allowing it to correct any problems. This will almost > certainly not recover anything useful, but will prevent existing > corruption creating new problems. > > o Institute a proper regime of making regular, frequent back-up > copies of all your work on a separate, external device. > > o Meanwhile, start re-sourcing or re-creating your document. > > Sorry this is not more helpful. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
