Thank you, Doug. We thought the file was small, too, for everything that
was included within it.
Oh, well, she'll have to wait until Monday.
Elizabeth was told by the city, for which she works, do daily backups. Now
she'll put them to the test.
She'll see how hot their feet get when she holds them to the fire!!!
)
We'll keep you posted as to the results on Monday.
Take care. We wish you and your family well.
Ernie & Elizabeth
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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A file should NEVER be opened from removable media. It should always be
copied to a hard drive and then opened from there.
I would seem that Elizabeth was probably working on the file on the
removable media.
Has she actually tried to use FileOpen and navigate to the folders on the
H
rive and open the file from there. However 19.5KB is astonishingly
small for a file of 31 pages containing graphs and pictures.
I would imagine that the Hrive is on a network that is regularly
back-up. Time to verify that your back-up restore process is working. But
as that probably cannot be done until Monday, seems like Elizabeth now has
the opportunity to do something else for the rest of the weekend.
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Hope this helps.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Scrivener" wrote in message
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Elizabeth was in her office. She's on a network. The network O.S. is
Microsoft 2000. She was working in Word 2002. Here is the message she
sent to her M.I.S. people, which they won't read until Monday.
"Dear Gurus ~
"I have been working (for months) on a Performance Report. It is 31
pages long, carrying with it multiple graphs, tables and photos. While
working on it today, my machine said something had happened, and it had
to close the document. Both the document closed and Word closed.
"Since then I have not been able to re-open the Word document, despite
multiple re-boots and re-tries. I can see the document on my H drive on
the server, and when I hover my cursor over it, it says that the 19.5KB
of data is still there.
"File name is "FY 2007 Performance Report.03.06.08" It is on my H drive
in a folder called Trailblazers, and another folder under that one called
Performance Report FY 2007, both of which now give me the following error
"Message when I try to open: Doc name or path is not valid. Try:
Check file permissions for document drive
Use the File Open dialog box to locate document."
The stranger thing is, she had her memory stick inserted when this
happened, and we cannot open the older file from the stick; seems like
whatever happened affected both the original file AND the file she had
backed up on the stick.
I have Office 2003. I inserted the stick at home. When I attempt to
open the file, Word 2003 error box gives me approximately the same
message, with the added proviso to use text recovery. When I attempt to
open under text recovery, the original error message comes up about
cannot open.
Any ideas would be of immense help. She'd like to work on the file this
weekend.
Thank you in advance,
Ernie