It might. Honestly:
I say just get the new one.
OK – I installed LibreOffice-fresh (7.6.4.1 or 7.6.4.2), replacing LibreOffice-still (7.5.9.2).
It went like this:
The package manager told me I couldn’t keep both and asked for permission to remove the older version. That’s all.
The result is – unfortunately:
Nothing has changed. LibreOffice still can’t open ClarisWorks.
There is one exception, however, but that hasn’t changed, either:
LibreOffice calc can open all ClarisWorks, AppleWorks and numbers spreadsheet files, and very correctly so.
LibreOffice calc can even recover text from ClarisWorks text files, but no formatting, and there is a lot of rubbish that fills up the rest of the pages. – So that’s interesting: LibreOffice calc is better than LibreOffice Writer at opening ClarisWorks documents!
Any more ideas?
Peter
PS.: Coming back to the hint concerning the MIME types:
MIME means „Multipurpose internet media type“.
But: my problem is not in the internet, it’s right on the desktop. It’s about opening a file with office software, not about sending s. th. over the internet.
Moreover: the first ClarisWorks files (ClarisWorks 2.1 and 4.0) do not even have file name extensions. That only started with AppleWorks 6.0 (I believe). So – according to my understanding – I couldn’t even create a MIME type for them, could I?
Yeah, I know. It is confusing, it got me as well.
It is (no longer?) just that. In fact, I don’t know if it’s any of that at all. (At least any longer.) It is, according to my understanding, how we assign defaults, or possibilities at least, in Linux.
Leads me further thinking that Apple uses the .odt files, but they add their own formatting overlay and wrap it all up in a nice archive file called .pages or .numbers.
I just checked 1 file from each directory and I have no problems opening any of them. Some windows opened as a paper-thin slit, I just right clicked on the window button (on the panel) and maximised the window.
They seem the same as their odt/ods counterparts, except that the clarisworks files have most words underlined by the spellchecker and the odt files haven’t got any underlined.
% pacman -Qs libreoffice
local/libcdr 0.1.7-7
CorelDraw file format importer library for LibreOffice
local/libreoffice-still 7.5.9-2
LibreOffice maintenance branch
You could probably add an extension…
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It must be a curse. – May I ask you, too:
What versions of LibreOffice and Manjaro do you work with?
I have now:
1 x Manjaro Xfce 23.1.3 + LibreOffice 7.5.9.2
1 x Manjaro KDE Plasma 23.1.2 + LibreOffice 7.6.4.1
and the picture is the same in both:
Writer doesn’t open any Apple text file.
Calc opens spreadsheet files perfectly and text files imperfectly.
And both of you assure me that on your computer the problem doesn’t exist. (And on my MacOS it doesn’t exist either, with LO 7.4.3.2).
Strange.
But: thank you very much for your time and your help!
Peter
Strange
PS.: My story is that I would like to switch from MacOS to Linux. I sort of like Manjaro, and at present I am testing if it does all that I want it to do. – I made a live testrun of Ubuntu, and there the problem doesn’t exist either: LO on Ubuntu opens all Apple files perfectly …
LibreOffice 7.5.9.2 50(Build:2)
My DE is Mate but that shouldn’t matter. As for Manjaro, there isn’t really a version as it’s a rolling release. But here’s lsb release anyway:
DISTRIB_ID="ManjaroLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="23.1.3"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="Vulcan"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"
I’ve just updated and no difference (except for the theme, which is unrelated).
LibreOffice 7.6.4.1 60(Build:1)
# No change to lsb release
How are you opening these files, and what are the results?
As far as I can tell, it does so on Manjaro too, at least for me.
So there is hope!
I double-click them. Under Manjaro Xfce there is a dialogue that appears that tells me that the file is probably corrupted and if LO should try to repair it. No matter if I click “yes” or “no”, the same answer appears: “The file couldn’t be repaired”.
And under Manjaro KDE Plasma there is an additional dialogue in between, which asks me to choose an application. I choose LO, and the rest is the same: “file …corrupted … can’t be repaired” etc.
Sorry,
what am I supposed to do here?
% pacman -Qs libreoffice
local/libcdr 0.1.7-7
CorelDraw file format importer library for LibreOffice
local/libreoffice-still 7.5.9-2
LibreOffice maintenance branch
Peter
They just open for me. Have you tried downloading the files from the link you posted and opening those?
When you say it works with other operating systems, are the files on the same filesystem?
What filesystem is it?
Yes, exactly those. But it could be others as well. I still have lots of the old (and more recent) Apple files.
.doc and .docx files open in LO without problems, only Apple files won’t (for me).
But have you tried re-downloading them? To try to rule out corrupted files on your end, as they seem fine here. Seems unlikely but stranger things have happened
I’ll have another go at it tomorrow.
I appreciate your help.
Peter
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You know, folks,
what I will do, is this:
I’m going to stop this research for a while – until I find out the answer by coincidence, or another solution.
Nobody is able to reproduce the bug: not the LibreOffice team, and no Manjaro Forum member either. That means my problem is local.
I will take my time, maybe reinstall, maybe on another computer, maybe try a different Linux distro, I don’t know yet.
Thank you again for your help and your time! If ever I can find the bug, I will let you know.
Peter
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