Please help - Word document emergency
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Mon Ami Mate said:
I can't over-emphasise how desperate I now am. Just spent half an hour on the phone with PDV6 and things are not looking good. This is a 128 page white paper which has taken me two months to research and write. It has to be with the client tomorrow morning. I think I may be stopping in to slit my wrists this evening...
oh bugger, you have my/our sympathies - try and clear your head/deep breaths, get a glass of wine (just one for now though) and try and go through once again all the options that have been suggested.
in meantime i will ask around some of my ms-office guru friends for ideas and send on to you if i learn anything relevant.
if still no success, finish off the bottle of wine.
wish i could think of something else to suggest.
fingers crossed for you.
Plotloss said:
When you open the document that is now blank if you save that document to another location as another document type, say .TXT, does that file have anything in it?
What is the size of the document that is now blank?
Is it very small 1K or less or is it the right size but corrupt?
It's 1k
egoboss said:
I can't over-emphasise how desperate I now am. Just spent half an hour on the phone with PDV6 and things are not looking good. This is a 128 page white paper which has taken me two months to research and write. It has to be with the client tomorrow morning. I think I may be stopping in to slit my wrists this evening...
oh bugger, you have my/our sympathies - try and clear your head/deep breaths, get a glass of wine (just one for now though) and try and go through once again all the options that have been suggested.
in meantime i will ask around some of my ms-office guru friends for ideas and send on to you if i learn anything relevant.
if still no success, finish off the bottle of wine.
wish i could think of something else to suggest.
fingers crossed for you.
Thanks for the support. I had just finished the document this morning. I did a ctrl A to highlight all the text, so that I could check the formatting. Then the phone rang. As I was talking on the phone the computer switched off - I suspect it was a power cut. I finished the phone call, switched the computer back on, went into the document and found...one blank page.
word document recovery software - unknown to me, maybe worth a try -
www.techspot.com/download335.html
www.techspot.com/download335.html
Plotloss said:
Open Notepad.exe and drag it in.
Do you just see loads of environmental garbage and things like Office 10 etc etc?
Here's the content (not sure how well it will display on here):
trashed doc said:
L À F‹ @‰
Óç"Å ÀÄì¨-Å Io¹ .Å ° õ PàOÐ ê:i ¢Ø +00 /C: 1 9.ñ¹ DOCUME~1 D ï¾9.ñ¹”1
Hmmm. Not very well, but you get the idea.
Looks like it's not recoverable so switch the whole lot off now before you overwrite it by mistake with something else.
Give these guys a call:
www.vogon-international.com/data%20recovery/emergency-00.htm
24 hour emergency data recovery. They've got a collection point in Bristol.
Give these guys a call:
www.vogon-international.com/data%20recovery/emergency-00.htm
24 hour emergency data recovery. They've got a collection point in Bristol.
pdV6 said:
Open Notepad.exe and drag it in.
Do you just see loads of environmental garbage and things like Office 10 etc etc?
Here's the content (not sure how well it will display on here):
trashed doc said:
L À F‹ @‰
Óç"Å ÀÄì¨-Å Io¹ .Å ° õ PàOÐ ê:i ¢Ø +00 /C: 1 9.ñ¹ DOCUME~1 D ï¾9.ñ¹”1
Hmmm. Not very well, but you get the idea.
Hmmmn indeed.
The usual environmental garbage is human readable.
Would a corruption in the file lead to the OS misreporting the file size?
If it could then there is a chance that a word document recovery tool could get it back...
Vogon will get the data back but its not at all cheap which I appreciate isnt your concern more of a heads up.
Feel for you. Been there with an important law assignment ...
Here's a good article from Microsoft. Have a read through, see if that makes any sense.
If it doesn't help, here's a utility I've used successfully in the past to recover deleted files: GetDataBack. You can download it for free, do a scan to see if there are any files there and then pay to unlock the software so that you can recover them. It is *very* good.
Hope you can recover your file ...
Here's a good article from Microsoft. Have a read through, see if that makes any sense.
If it doesn't help, here's a utility I've used successfully in the past to recover deleted files: GetDataBack. You can download it for free, do a scan to see if there are any files there and then pay to unlock the software so that you can recover them. It is *very* good.
Hope you can recover your file ...
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