OO 2.0 .odt is zip?

[Christopher Browne]

On Nov 22, 2007 6:35 PM, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> 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.
>
> ?

This is entirely NOT an OO problem...

OO has always (well, for a long long time) used as its storage format
the notion of storing a directory structure that includes an XML
document as well as image files and presumably the other stuff you are
seeing as "Thumbnails," all bundled together in a .zip archive.

This is similar to the way that Java apps and libraries are commonly
stored as sets of files in a Zip-format archive with the suffix ".jar"
or ".war"

There is arguably bloat to this, but the compression of Zip tends to
hide the bloat pretty successfully.  There is no bug here; OO is
working as expected.

It would, however, appear that you are experiencing some sort of
"configuration problem" with whatever application is being used to
provide a graphical view on the filesystem.  It is apparently
recognizing the file type based on format rather than the (usually
pretty braindamaged) assumption that file suffixes exist and are
meaningful, which is an artifact of MS-DOS filesystems that separated
namespaces into pieces (e.g. - having the concept of an "extension").

Unix filesystems, of course, do not have any such structure as an
"extension;" there is simply one big happy long filename.

I would tend to think that the way your file manager application is
working seems quite appropriate; it's evidently examining the data
format and correctly diagnosing what format it is (e.g. - a Zip
archive).

As to what to do to make it recognize that the file is an OO document,
well, I think you probably should ascertain what file manager app you
are using, and consider addressing the question to whomever supports
it.
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