Corrupt .abw files

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Hi all,

I was enthousiastically using AbiWord 0.99 yesterday, opening an
existing MS Word 2000 file and saving this as a .abw file. I was happily
writing some text and changing things for about 30mins, saving
regularly.

I then closed AbiWord and tried to load the .abw file, and it claims
that "File ..... is an invalid document". This behaviour also occurs if
I just open the .doc and without changing a thing save as .abw. It seems
to me that AbiWord should never ever write a corrupt file in its native
file format (although I have seen MS Word do this). Any ideas how this
can happen?

Greetings,

Michiel Toneman

P.S. Last week I lost 3 hours of work when OpenOffice saved all the
files I was working on in 0 bytes (how is that for compression). I've
had it with word processors, back to good old vim and LaTeX for me....

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