Need help recovering a deleted file

[Tuva42]

I deleted several documents on a removable ISB drive. Later I found I needed
these files and used a file recovery program to find the files. I had not
used the USB drive for anything else so the deleted files were found easily.
I was able to save them as MS Word documents, but when I open them they are
just jumbled characters. I've tried all the Word choices for decoding the
file and nothing works.
When I originally made these documents they were password protected. Could
that be why I can't read them now? Any suggestions on what I should do?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If they were password protected against opening before and are not now, it
seems that the recovery software could not handle the encryption properly
and the documents are now corrupt.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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