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Unable to open my file on Open Office

tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member -  
dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   -
Hello everyone,

For the past few days, I haven't been able to open a very important spreadsheet!
A window opens and offers me "file import." And if I click OK, a sheet opens but it's empty :(

I don't have a backup of this file and I don't know what to do, can you please help me?

Thank you

Configuration: Windows / Firefox 61.0

9 answers

  1. Anonymous user
     
    And no backups for a file deemed important...
    Disheartening.
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    1. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
       
      What’s disappointing is your remark! I'm already frustrated enough about not being able to recover my file without you adding insult to injury!
      Not everyone is an expert like you.... Through various forums, I read that it was indeed possible to make a backup; I didn’t know that....
      With that, have a good evening, hoping that someone passes by and can help me.
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    2. Anonymous user
       
      You don't need to be an expert to make backups.
      You just have to start your work again. As we used to say back in the day, practice makes perfect.
      It's something I've often noticed in some people, this refusal to make backups, and on Excel, this refusal to lock formulas. As long as you haven't lost or messed up an important and urgent file, you don't understand the necessity...
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  2. bazfile Posted messages 58513 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   20 277
     
    Hello,
    Try to recover an old version of this file using Shadow Explorer.

    --
    bazfile security contributor.
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  3. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
     
    Thank you for your response, unfortunately, I just did it and I have the same result :(
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  4. Anonymous user
     
    And by going to Windows Explorer, right-click on the file name, properties/previous versions?
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  6. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
     
    it tells me that there are no previous versions :(
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  7. dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 660
     
    hello
    try this test to see if it can be retrieved
    thttps://forum.openoffice.org/fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=43167
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    1. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
       
      Hello,

      I have a message: the file contains only null bytes :'(
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    2. dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 660
       
      aie...
      go to Tools -> Options -> Loading -> General
      to see if a backup copy has been created
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    3. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
       
      unfortunately no :(
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  8. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
     
    Good evening everyone,

    Unfortunately, I was unable to recover my file.
    So I redid it, following your recommendations closely....

    Tonight I want to open my file and here we go again !!!!
    "text import"

    I right-click on the file name, properties/previous versions and I find nothing even though I had saved it properly!!!

    Can you please let me know if there is another place where my file could be?

    Thanks in advance :'(
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    1. tymaya Posted messages 95 Status Member
       
      When I go to backup, I have my file in .bak but if I open it with WordPad for example, it's empty :(
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  9. rosalie888 Posted messages 7 Status Member
     
    Hello^^
    So, I'm at my wit's end, I hope you can help me.

    After losing an Open Office file a few months ago, I discovered bak archives (novice),
    so I configured my software to save the archives every 15 minutes.

    And this morning, my computer crashed again, and I can't open the bak archive by copying and pasting it to the desktop and changing the extension to "ods"... yet there are 230 k of data in the bak archive... I had done it this way before and it worked.
    help and thank you in advance.
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  10. dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 660
     
    LibreOffice or OpenOffice?
    Is it really a Spreadsheet file?
    unable to open the bak archive an error message?
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    1. rosalie888 Posted messages 7 Status Member
       
      Hello and thank you, yes it's an Open Office (Apache) spreadsheet
      No error message, but it opens a blank spreadsheet when I change to the ods extension...
      Thank you
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    2. dubcek Posted messages 18627 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 660
       
      by going to File -> Open?
      when opening the file with Notepad, is there text like this 
      PK  F[M…l9Š. .  mimetypeapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheetPK  F[M ' Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml PK  PK  F[M  Configurations2/images/Bitmaps/PK  F[M  Configurations2/floater/PK  F[M  Configurations2/progressbar/PK  F[M  Configurations2/menubar/PK  F[M  Configurations2/popupmenu/PK  F[M  Configur
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    3. rosalie888 Posted messages 7 Status Member
       
      Non pas de texte, page blanche
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    4. rosalie888 Posted messages 7 Status Member
       
      When I change the .bak extension to .ods and open the file, I get this:
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    5. rosalie888 Posted messages 7 Status Member
       
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