Article View: comp.sys.mac.apps
Article #2402Re: MS Word Recovery - Possible??
From: Vu Tien
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 08:26
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 08:26
18 lines
1361 bytes
1361 bytes
In article <1992Sep1.071848.859@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud) writes: |> moj@risken.vd.volvo.se (Mats-Olof Sander) ponders: |> >Is it possible to recover the changes to an unsaved MS Word document |> >after a crash using the temp-files left from the session. The previous |> >version of the document is undamaged and the temp file contains some |> >more or less useless data. |> >Mats-Olof Sander, Volvo Data AB, Sweden |> It happened to me once, a crash while editing a 240K Word document with a lot of drawings in it. I located the last "Word Temp" file, noticed that its size is about the size of my original document. I used FEdit to change the author and type of the "Word Temp" file to the value of a "true" Word file. Then it opened under Word just as a normal word document with all my precious data. vutien.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1992Sep3.082619.6167@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!cenaath.cena.dgac.fr!geant!vutienReferences:
<moj.715278526@risken> <1992Sep1.071848.859@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!cenaath.cena.dgac.fr!geant!vutien From: vutien@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Vu Tien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word Recovery - Possible?? Message-ID: <1992Sep3.082619.6167@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr> Date: 3 Sep 92 08:26:19 GMT References: <moj.715278526@risken> <1992Sep1.071848.859@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne Lines: 18 Originator: vutien@caros