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MS Word no longer recognizes .doc files -- not a valid file name
Yesterday, I downloaded an MS Word file that was password-protected. The
download went fine, without any warnings or alerts from my firewall of any sort. I opened the file with the password that had been communicated to me by other means, and it opened on the instant. But in that same instant, some score of MS Word files and/or directories that I had open or had recently been working with suddenly and inexplicably disappeared. The folders are now empty, the files are nowhere to be found, and my backup system has failed to restore them, I know not why. Moreover, two truly weird things started happening immediately thereafter: MS Word will not save any file whatsoever now with a .doc extender, although it will save the same file with/as .rtf, and all the zip files that were in those directories that were otherwise unaffected now demand a password, when I know for a fact, because I had used them earlier, they were not password-protected. Finally, a flash drive that my other computers read with no problems, the MS Word files included, is "Folder Empty" every time I try to open files with MS Word on my main computer. I would deeply be grateful for any help. |
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