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Disk failure, need to recover lost doc
I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had
nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word, notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text. It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text part????????????e??????? ################################################## ### text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????? me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? and so on ################################################## ### Pleace,help me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????" Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between. |
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The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into
existence. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gandor wrote: I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word, notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text. It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text part????????????e??????? ################################################## ### text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????? me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? and so on ################################################## ### Pleace,help me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????" Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between. |
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Hi!
I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering. Gandor "Graham Mayor" wrote: The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into existence. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gandor wrote: I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word, notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text. It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text part????????????e??????? ################################################## ### text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????? me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? and so on ################################################## ### Pleace,help me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????" Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between. |
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There's rarely anything magic about computers. That's because they give off
a lot of EMI. It prevents the magic from being able to have an effect on your documents. You should see the effect it has on my crystal ball. -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Gandor" wrote in message ... Hi! I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering. Gandor "Graham Mayor" wrote: The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into existence. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gandor wrote: I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word, notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text. It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text part????????????e??????? ################################################## ### text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????? me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? and so on ################################################## ### Pleace,help me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????" Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between. |
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EMI - is that ElectroMagic Impenetrability?
Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 7/29/07 2:05 PM, in article , "JoAnn Paules" wrote: There's rarely anything magic about computers. That's because they give off a lot of EMI. It prevents the magic from being able to have an effect on your documents. You should see the effect it has on my crystal ball. |
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rimshot!
:-) -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . EMI - is that ElectroMagic Impenetrability? Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 7/29/07 2:05 PM, in article , "JoAnn Paules" wrote: There's rarely anything magic about computers. That's because they give off a lot of EMI. It prevents the magic from being able to have an effect on your documents. You should see the effect it has on my crystal ball. |
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To prevent future mistake in saving documents . You might want to try
Keepsafe from Stardock it saves your documents in real time as intermediate step http://www.stardock.com/products/keepsafe/ -- Paul Ballou MVP Office http://office.microsoft.com/home http://homepage.mac.com/paulballou/ http://www.ballousgiftshop.com "Gandor" wrote in message ... Hi! I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering. Gandor "Graham Mayor" wrote: The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into existence. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Gandor wrote: I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word, notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text. It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text part????????????e??????? ################################################## ### text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????? me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? and so on ################################################## ### Pleace,help me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????" Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between. |
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On Jul 29, 10:46 am, Gandor wrote:
Hi! I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering. It might not have been corrupt. I don't know why a Word doc would have been saved as a text file, but Word documents are not usually readable in Notepad anyway, even perfectly good ones. For future reference, here's a site with some information on Word document recovery: www.word-recovery.info . |
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