OpenOffice and 'empty' rtf docs

From: felmon (noone_at_nowhere.invalid)
Date: 07/30/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:22:03 -0400

greets,

this is weird. I have a document written in OpenOffice 1.1.4 (Suse 9.1)
that is about 75 pages long.

I came back to it after a week and find that when I open it in OO, it is
only one blank page!

however, opening it in Abiword resurrects the whole document.

I just did an experiment and renamed the document in Abiword and saved it
as rtf. when I open _this_ document in OO, it reads the whole thing.

my guess is the file was corrupted (but didn't deter Abiword?!) - there
was a crash of kde since I last worked on the document and it was open.

this was _very_ disconcerting. any thoughts on how to recover the file
directly into OO? otherwise I have to do a fair amount of reformatting
because of changes due to the Abiword conversion.

I haven't found anything on Google and the OpenOffice forum is unwieldly
for searching.

Felmon