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

[Yamaplos .]

Hmmm.  Wish you are right, though "update your Ubuntu distribution" is
sort of a non sequitur here in Bolivia - took me over 2 days last
time.

Hey!  Now I remember, this machine was 100% up to date in the States,
which is 2 weeks ago.  Are you sure?

would you care to point *what* version/distro you are talking of?

In any case, documents that *only* work in the latest and finest are
*hardly* standard-compatible

Thank you anyway

BTW, this kid is doing great work.  Given the general collapse of the
project here, it warms my heart that at least one machine is in the
wild being used.  I hope some others are also, that i just don't know
about.  Evidence is that most are under lock and key at assorted
orphanages and such :-(

2011/12/11, Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com>:
> 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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