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| Thread ID: 34328 | 2003-06-10 02:05:00 | Recovery of corrupted Word doc | Jester (13) | Press F1 |
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| 151439 | 2003-06-10 02:05:00 | Help! My wife completed an assignment last night, using Word 97, and saved it in the normal manner . She opened it this morning and it was all unicode type characters like this ¨¡¢¯¥ã¥Òǽ, with many boxes . Some of the existing text is visible amongst all the gibberish, but a lot is missing . All the other word docs open ok . I have tried opening it in wordpad, notepad, tried renaming it from . doc to . rtf, . txt etc, but no joy . I have searched through my files for any autosaved versions of the document, but haven't had any joy . Nothing in the temp files either . I downloaded a trial of WordFix, which basically replaced all the boxes with the word 'demo' and didn't appear to recover any of the missing text . Can anyone point us in the direstion of a (preferably) free word doc recovery tool . Thanks in advance J . |
Jester (13) | ||
| 151440 | 2003-06-10 02:14:00 | Have you looked for *.wbk files? Another trick is to look for all files with yesterday's date. There was a post on this general subject not long ago that I and several others commented on so see what PF1 search can offer. Good luck! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 151441 | 2003-06-10 02:17:00 | In the Word file open dialog (Word 2k - not sure about 97), there is a file type option "recover text from any file". This may extract the remnants that you can see, but I suspect the 'converted' text is gone for good. :| | wuppo (41) | ||
| 151442 | 2003-06-10 02:23:00 | Thanks Billy, but no * . wbk files on system :( I have searched all files created, modified or accessed as of yesterday's date without success . I wonder where the 'autosaved' Word temp files are stored? I haven't done a clean out of temps since yesterday AM, so it's likely to be lurking somewhere . . . J . |
Jester (13) | ||
| 151443 | 2003-06-10 02:29:00 | Jester, Try downloading and using DocRepair from Word Document Recovery Utility (www.simtel.net) Cheers, babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 151444 | 2003-06-10 02:33:00 | Jester, Sorry that DocRepair v2.0 also replaces text with the word DEMO until you pay some money... Babe :-( |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 151445 | 2003-06-10 02:40:00 | Hi Wuppo, That option tidied the document up a lot, and interestingly, it says ".7C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\AutoRecovery save of the victorians.asd" many times throughout, however I cannot find any .asd files (as suggested by Billy). It is also repeating paragraphs throughout, like a stuck record. My wife and I really appreciate all your comments so far J. |
Jester (13) | ||
| 151446 | 2003-06-10 02:57:00 | If you have repeating text throughout, you probably have 'fast saves' enabled in Word (this appends updated text, rather than re-writing the complete file cleanly). It's a bit like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, but many people recommend disabling fast saves, as it is believed to be one cause of corrupted Word documents. :| |
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