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[bruce_waters <bruce_waters@xxxxxxx>]

This may be relevant. I have some .odg documents that open in LO Impress
no matter what I do, and they should open in LO Draw. Possibly OO has
the same problem. Here's a workaround.

The problem of a Draw document opening in Impress rather than Draw is due, at least partly, to the internally stored mimetype value ending with the substring .presentation rather than what it should be, .graphics
 You can get access to this by opening the .odg document in 7-Zip as an archive, you’ll see mimetype listed, right click it and from the context menu chose Edit. Manually change the substring presentation to graphics and click the window close button. You’ll be asked if you want to update the archive, click OK. Then open LO Draw (from the standard LO interface or do File > Open in an existing opened LO Draw document, navigate to the modified Draw document and open it (don’t try double-clicking or right click to choose to open using Draw – these won’t work as the document is still in a compromised state). Draw will show you a dialog box saying the document is corrupt and offering Repair as an option. Take it – you’ll get an Untitled version of the repaired document, do Save As… and supply a new name, and you are done. Thereafter, it will open, as expected, in LO Draw.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272975

Title:
  [upstream] Draw opens 'Recent Documents' .odg document in Impress

Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in openoffice.org package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  Was originally an Impress document (.odp). Saved and edited in
  multiple sessions as an .odg.

  If "Open" - opens in Draw.
  If same document is opened via Recent Documents, opens in Impress.

  Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.1
  Release:        8.04
  openoffice.org-draw: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2

  Would expect the .odg to always open in Draw.

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