OO 2.0 .odt is zip?

[Chris Aitken]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
>> If this turns out ot be a BIG OO question then I'll re-join their 
>> list and ask there. I thought I'd start here in case it's an easy fix.
>>
>> On my computer I have OO 2.3. I save a file as an .odt and that's it 
>> - no problem. On my wife's computer (OO 2.0) I Save As .odt and it 
>> comes out as a 'zip archive' fle (?) containing directories (?) of 
>> things like 'Thumbnails', and files such as whatever.xml). Why is the 
>> OO 2.0 doing this? I just want to save and open docs as simple 
>> .odt's. The zip archive has an icon of a box. If I right-click the 
>> "file" it identifies itself as an .odt but also identifies itself as 
>> a zip archive file.
>
> OpenOffice documents have always been zip archives.
Okay, how come they've never announced themselves that way on any system 
I've ever had (until now)? In older versions they would default to 
saving as .sxw. In newer versions they've defaulted to saving as .odt. 
Both simply open as a document. On this one computer however they are 
zip files that don't want to just open as a document. In other words if 
they have always been zip files that has always been invisible to me - 
they have always just opened as a document.

Until now on this one computer...

Chris

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