[IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...

[Martin Sevior]

Hi Yamalos,

Actually Write saves as ODT by default. What you see is a bug in your
Ubuntu distro. I think it's fixed now. Try updating your Ubuntu
distribution.

Cheers

Martin

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Yamaplos . <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> I came upon this error trasferring a file from a kid's XO here in
> Bolivia to my Ubuntu.  I am not sure what system he had, since before
> I got to open the file in my machine I updated his to os874.  I will
> try again tomorrow, hoping this old, old issue is no longer...
>
> My understanding is that the Write files were RTF misnamed as ODT.
> However, I renamed this one to RTF and it didn't open at all.  As ODT,
> it does eventually open in LibreOffice (which says it "repairs" it,
> whatever that means)
>
> hmmm...  Can we have some kind of a standard? I imagine a file made in
> Ubuntu will not work in the XO, which is no good, and viceversa.
> "corrupt" is not a comforting word for any teacher.  I wonder how much
> worse this works within windoze, which is what teachers are given in
> many places in their, ahem, mentally "corrupt" administrators realm.
>
> If we can't do good ODT, can we at least do decent RTF? or at least
> the much easier and much more universal HTM?  THAT would be rather
> clever!  Kids would produce web pages by default.
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