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How do I open a corrupt file
I recently finished some work for a TAFE assignment in Bus Cert III I had it
saved in My Documents then needed to take it to work to check it over, so I used my memory stick as a saving tool, on the drop down I saved it onto E (memory stick) next thing that happened was a pop up saying do you want to replace existing file or make a new one. I should have used "new" instead I put onto existing file, immediately I lost 6 practice tasks and my whole assignment. As it merged into the smaller existing portion already saved on my memory stick..... This is a valuable lesson - never again.... I can not recover all my work.... 1 weeks worth of serious study...... although i feel it is on my compt somewhere as the amount of words etc still come up under the corrupt display when I try to recover it.... HELP |
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How do I open a corrupt file
Barely a day goes by without us telling people that saving from Word to
removable media is one of the surest ways of losing your work, but still people do so. Unless you have a backup, and if the work is that important you should have, the chances of recovering anything useful are impossibly slim to non-existent. You need to investigate file recovery software, but don't be too surprised if there is nothing to recover. In future ALWAYS work from the hard drive and COPY the results to and from the removable media - but even then you need to take notice of the warnings Windows offers when you try to do something that could result in unwanted data loss.. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joanne wrote: I recently finished some work for a TAFE assignment in Bus Cert III I had it saved in My Documents then needed to take it to work to check it over, so I used my memory stick as a saving tool, on the drop down I saved it onto E (memory stick) next thing that happened was a pop up saying do you want to replace existing file or make a new one. I should have used "new" instead I put onto existing file, immediately I lost 6 practice tasks and my whole assignment. As it merged into the smaller existing portion already saved on my memory stick..... This is a valuable lesson - never again.... I can not recover all my work.... 1 weeks worth of serious study...... although i feel it is on my compt somewhere as the amount of words etc still come up under the corrupt display when I try to recover it.... HELP |
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How do I open a corrupt file
Somebody else just had a similar question, so I'll copy and paste my answer
to KK. I don't know what version of Word you're in, but Word 2003 has a function called "Open and Repair." Open Word (no document, just Word). Then use either the Ctrl-O function or the File-Open menu option. When the Open screen comes up, navigate to your corrupt file and select it. (Just select it -- don't double click it.) Next to the Open button is a tiny down arrow. Select that down arrow and choose Open and Repair. This gives you at least a chance of recovering some of your document. Often you will lose formatting or sometimes chunks of text, depending on what is corrupt, but most of the time you'll get back at least part of your document. Sometimes, I think that success with this method depends on either (a) how you hold your mouth, or (b) whether you're living a good, clean, honest, Christian life. If it works, say it's because of (b). If it doesn't, blame it on (a). Fred "Joanne" wrote: I recently finished some work for a TAFE assignment in Bus Cert III I had it saved in My Documents then needed to take it to work to check it over, so I used my memory stick as a saving tool, on the drop down I saved it onto E (memory stick) next thing that happened was a pop up saying do you want to replace existing file or make a new one. I should have used "new" instead I put onto existing file, immediately I lost 6 practice tasks and my whole assignment. As it merged into the smaller existing portion already saved on my memory stick..... This is a valuable lesson - never again.... I can not recover all my work.... 1 weeks worth of serious study...... although i feel it is on my compt somewhere as the amount of words etc still come up under the corrupt display when I try to recover it.... HELP |
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