Bug 67617 - FILEOPEN RTF with .doc extension causes error
Summary: FILEOPEN RTF with .doc extension causes error
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67699
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.1.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium critical
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Keywords: regression
: 67705 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-08-01 11:41 UTC by Ivan
Modified: 2013-11-21 20:23 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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DOC - Runtime Error (107.43 KB, application/rtf)
2013-08-01 11:41 UTC, Ivan 		Details
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Description Ivan 2013-08-01 11:41:37 UTC 
Created attachment 83426 [details]
DOC - Runtime Error

Don't open a document from an attachment
Comment 1 Urmas 2013-08-03 14:41:44 UTC 
*** Bug 67705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2013-08-03 22:47:33 UTC 
This is a regression in 4.1.0.3; in 4.1.0.2 it worked OK.
Comment 3 Caolán McNamara 2013-08-12 15:52:42 UTC 
triggered by d1fc3fce16172d7d619b6826de44528030ab36f8 fdo#64448: Don't get type name from incorrect filter
Comment 4 Mike Kaganski 2013-08-12 21:59:41 UTC 
I'm afraid that the fix for bug 64448 made more new problems than solved.

I would suggest to change that fix not to drop the data from "incorrect filter", but instead to notify user that it is not a filetype that is expected; that the program supposes that this is some other file type; and suggest to try that guessed filter.

So, from the end-user perspective, there should be these cases when a file os opening:
1. File is detected unambiguously: simply open it.
1.1. An error happens while loading: instead of uninformative "i/o error", provide a more verbose information with a suggestion that this file is of some other (unrecognized) type. It would be simply awesome if it then would provide an option to send it for analisys, or use some (online) utility to detect etc., but it is a separate feature request.
2. File is detected as one type, but some filter claims that it is its type: try the main filter, catch general i/o error, provide a warning and a choice to try other detected filters.

Without this, this is a real problem for quite a number of users that receive such files from others/from some (badly designed) programs. And this is the regression from the UX perspective!
Comment 5 Kohei Yoshida 2013-08-19 21:11:47 UTC 
Caolan, could you verify that my fix for Bug 67699 also fixes this?  I tested it after my fix, and the RTF file with .doc extension opens fine now.
Comment 6 Caolán McNamara 2013-08-20 13:21:43 UTC 
yup, that fixes this too

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 67699 ***