[bksvol-discuss] Re: how to repair a corrupted word file?

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:12 -0500

If you saved in word, do you have yours set up to save revisions?  If so, maybe 
the version before your last save is viable.

Sorry for that!  It is one of the reasons i save multiple copies in different 
locations until they are in the collection.

Hope you can find and repair a copy!

Valerie


On Mar 15, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:

> Ok the book I had just finished scanning when my desktop went poof is 
> corrupted. I got the part to transfer files from my old hard drives to my 
> laptop and it works like a charm. But word won't open the rtf file. It says 
> it is corrupted (I had just saved it before the poof) and to try "open and 
> repair" instead of just open. I tried that and all I get is a few lines of 
> gibberish.
> 
> Does anyone else know how to open a corrupted file or is all the hard work 
> just gone?
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