On Monday 06 July 2009, James Hatridge wrote:

HI all,

I was sent two doc files that I can't open. I'm using open office and normally I can open them. The original file names were this:

~$m stadt straubing.doc ~$m Vesterling.doc

I put them online at:

http://www.passing-fancy.com/WHB/Straubing.doc http://www.passing-fancy.com/WHB/Vesterling.doc

Can someone tell me how to open them or will I have to get with my friend and have her redo them?

Have her redo them. I just downloaded them, and they don't have any sort of recognizable format. And they are only 162 bytes? Mike -- Powered by SuSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25 KDE 3.5 Kmail 1.9 10:04am up 13 days 12:22, 4 users, load average: 2.23, 2.36, 2.30 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-07-06 at 09:35 +0200, James Hatridge wrote:

HI all,

I was sent two doc files that I can't open. I'm using open office and normally I can open them. The original file names were this:

~$m stadt straubing.doc ~$m Vesterling.doc

I put them online at:

http://www.passing-fancy.com/WHB/Straubing.doc http://www.passing-fancy.com/WHB/Vesterling.doc

Can someone tell me how to open them or will I have to get with my friend and have her redo them?

Resend. They are broken: - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 162 2009-07-06 01:45 Straubing.doc - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 162 2009-07-06 01:45 Vesterling.doc - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpR7MoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VMHwCgjLmpZ+MbXooYSyDdCmc9mgA+ YMUAn2Nv+4as+eG97V+v2DfGTSBxCBWI =A4ru -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:35 AM, James Hatridge wrote:

HI all,

I was sent two doc files that I can't open. I'm using open office and normally I can open them. The original file names were this:

~$m stadt straubing.doc ~$m Vesterling.doc

Doubtful. Those are the names of temp/lock files I am willing to bet. ~$ in the first two chars is used as a marker by office of a temp/lock file. Those files are supposed to be hidden, and therefore not selectable in the file chooser dialog, etc. I've never tried to create a legitimate doc whose name starts with ~$. I recommend avoid even trying. So two resolutions. 1) leave things as they are and ensure the user ignores files starting with ~$. 2) fix the file view such that hidden files are indeed hidden. In general I don't care much for hidden files, so I would go with option 1). Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org