How to recover corrupted OOoWriter 1.9 files?

**Super-Man** · 19-02-2012

as the title of thread is saying what I am looking to ask you over here. I wanted to recover OOowriter 1.9 files. When I was trying to do the same I am getting below mentioned error message.’ Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content xml at 2,3440 (row,col)’ if you are having any solution to fix then post over here.

**Abhiroopa** · 19-02-2012

The above mentioned file seems to be corrupted files. You can simply recover the data by making the copy of the file and you have to rename as a zip file. After that extract the zip file and you have to looking into the content.xml file. If you wanted text file only then it would be quite easy to recover. In case you will need formatting then it will be quite difficult to harder so best practicing is to take all the text from the content.xml and restyle the document from the beginning.

**Erakna** · 19-02-2012

Below mentioned is a shell script which would dumps the content without formatting to the text file. You can copy and paste it through OOo and reformat it. Now save the same as a new file. The below mentioned command will help you to resolve all the most common corruption issues.

Code:

#!/bin/bash 
unzip -oq $1 -d recovery_$1   # Extract the file 
tr "<" "\012" < recovery_$1/content.xml | grep ^text \ 
| cut '-d>' -f2, | uniq > $1_content.txt

To execute the shell by using below mentioned command.

Code:

sh [script name] [corrupted file]

**Bontu** · 19-02-2012

I was suffering from the above mentioned problem and I fixed the same by using below mentioned trick.

You have to go for File and click on New and after that clicked on Text Document.

Clicked on Insert button and inserted file which is having issue.

It worked really great for me.