If they were password protected against opening before and are not now, it
seems that the recovery software could not handle the encryption properly
and the documents are now corrupt.

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Tuva42 wrote:
I deleted several documents on a removable ISB drive. Later I found I
needed these files and used a file recovery program to find the
files. I had not used the USB drive for anything else so the deleted
files were found easily. I was able to save them as MS Word
documents, but when I open them they are just jumbled characters.
I've tried all the Word choices for decoding the file and nothing
works.
When I originally made these documents they were password protected.
Could that be why I can't read them now? Any suggestions on what I
should do?