Bug 78260

Summary: VIEWING: The file seems corrupted
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: edumax9
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: barta, iplaw67
Version: 4.2.1.1 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Mac OS X (All)   
Whiteboard: BSA
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: The File that seems corrupted but you can open it

Description edumax9 2014-05-04 16:23:24 UTC
Created attachment 98420 [details]
The File that seems corrupted but you can open it

Problem description: Yesterday I saved the file and today I opened it an it was absolutly different from yesterday... It was full of ##### and &&& and another kind of symbols. All what I writed isn't there.



hope you can help me... 



Thank you,

Edward
Operating System: Mac OS X
Version: 4.2.1.1 release
Comment 1 tommy27 2014-05-07 04:38:05 UTC
file looks corrupted in Win7x64 as well using 4.2.3.3

however without the original uncorrupted file and exact steps to reproduce the corruption it will very hard to fix.
Comment 2 edumax9 2014-05-07 05:09:37 UTC
Hey!

Oh…

don’t worry….


Thanks for the attention,


Edward


On 07 May 2014, at 06:38, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:

> tommy27 changed bug 78260 
> What	Removed	Added
> Status	UNCONFIRMED	NEW
> CC	  	barta@quipo.it
> Ever confirmed	  	1
> 
> Comment # 1 on bug 78260 from tommy27
> file looks corrupted in Win7x64 as well using 4.2.3.3
> 
> however without the original uncorrupted file and exact steps to reproduce the
> corruption it will very hard to fix.
> 
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> You reported the bug.
Comment 3 Alex Thurgood 2014-07-16 07:45:17 UTC
Hi edumax9,

Were you by any chance saving your file to an external USB storage, or did you save to your internal hard disk ?
Comment 4 Mark Bourne 2014-07-22 20:38:00 UTC
It looks like that file is corrupt. If Writer can't work out any other format for the file, it interprets as plain text. The garbage seen is the raw data from the file, with hashes (#) for non-printable characters.

In this file, it looks like there is some other garbage (possibly a fragment of a different file) at the beginning, and data is missing from the end. Looks a crash (or disk disconnect or failure) in the middle of writing the file has messed up the file system entries. (Was this on a removable disk? Did you remove the disk immediately after saving the file?)

I don't know what Mac OSX's disk error checking / recovery utility is (equivalent of scandisk on Windows or chkfs on Linux). It might be able to find the error and orphaned parts of the file, or a previous version of it, although that's unlikely if the disk has still been used for the last couple of months.

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