publisher cannot open the file

[AGS history]

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory, save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003 was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

 

[Chuck Davis]

Happiness is a recent backup... Another lesson learned!

 

[Mary Sauer]

How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198256/en-us

Look in your temp folder, you might get lucky. In Windows Explorer, type %temp%
in the address bar, find a temp file that has "pub" as a prefix, change the .tmp
extension to .pub.

 

[usa1]

Hello - were you able to access the file successfully or what was the
outcome?
Please advise me as i have just found myself in the same hole !!
ASAP lease

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Is this a file you created or something that was sent to you?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[workbook]

Hi JoAnn,
This same thing happened to me on a 40 pg workbook. Luckily I had already
sent it to print, so the printer has a copy of it. My problem, is that I
cannot open it from my publisher file, my saved docs file or my outbox. I
tried your suggestion below and was presented with a bunch of unreadable
symbols. Any suggestions? Your last post was in 2006 - anything new that
might work?
Thanks.

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you using 2003? If you are using 2007 there is a hotfix.
Description of the Publisher 2007 hotfix package (Publisher-x-none.msp):
October 27, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/976177/en-us

Some suggestions here:
How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198256
or
Error message when you try to open a publication in Publisher: "Publisher cannot
open the file" or "Publisher has detected a problem"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928890/en-us


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Mary Sauer MVP
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Hi JoAnn,
This same thing happened to me on a 40 pg workbook. Luckily I had already
sent it to print, so the printer has a copy of it. My problem, is that I
cannot open it from my publisher file, my saved docs file or my outbox. I
tried your suggestion below and was presented with a bunch of unreadable
symbols. Any suggestions? Your last post was in 2006 - anything new that
might work?
Thanks.

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!