Dear John, Many thanks indeed for you reply, and for the advice.
I will try to remove the hard drive and look for an uncorrupted copy. Is there perhaps anothey way to fix the file, through some kind of recovery tool for instance? Many thanks for your help. Best, Adam On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:04 PM, John Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/27/2016 2:53 PM, Adam Bujdoso wrote: > >> Dear Group, >> >> I have a problem for which I am hoping to get some help from you. >> >> I am trying to open an encrypted Calc ods file with some quite important >> data in it, however, when I type in the password after being prompted to >> do so, I get an error message "The file is corrupt and therefore cannot be >> >> > If the beginning of the file is corrupt, it will be impossible to salvage > anything. > The best chance of recovering it would be to take the hard drive out of > the computer > and try to find an uncorrupted copy of the file. You can search for a copy > without > removing the drive, the danger is the OS might overwrite the file, which > becomes > more likely the longer it's using the drive. > jrh > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
