Missing or corrupt file

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Stephanie

I have been trying four 6 hours now to open this 20 page
paper that I only had saved to a floppy! I keep getting
that the path is wrong, or the file is missing or corupt!
I know I have been able to fix this once before, but I
can't remember how! The paper is due in 4 hours, and I
can't really say my computer ate it!!! Does anyone have
any ideas??!!
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You've probably hopelessly corrupted it, first by saving to a floppy and
then by trying to open from a floppy, but try copying it to your HD. If you
can't open it normally, try using the "Recover Text from Any File" setting
for "Files of type" in Word's File Open dialog.
 
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Guest

For some reason I thought there was somne dos utility
that I had used before to be able to open the file...
Does anyone know what I am refering to???
 
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Guest

Oh... when I ues the recover text from any file, I still
get an error that says "The doc path is not valid, check
permissions on the file or drive, or use file open dialog
box to locate the doc, then it shows A: and the file
name. This doc was fine yesterday, and this morning it
was saying that the disk wasn't formatted. I tried to
copy the disk to another disk, and that is when all of
the old files show up. All of the rest of them work now,
except the one I need and one other file. Too strange!!!!
 
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Charles Kenyon

Not at all strange, but very unfortunate. Word does not behave with floppy
disks. You might want to print out the messages in this thread to convince
your teacher that your computer ate it.

If you use Word to save a file to a floppy disk, to open a file on a floppy
disk, or to print a file on a floppy disk, eventually Word will destroy the
file. (The same is true of other removable media as well.) The only
work-around for this is to save to the hard drive and copy back and forth
from the hard drive within Windows. I know that many shared (library)
computers won't let you do this. If properly set up, it is my understanding
that Word 2003 makes this problem less or even fixes it, but that is not a
default setting AFAIK.

Bottom line, when working in Word, act as if the computer does not even have
a floppy disk!
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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