Recovering a publisher file from its .tmp file

[Jim]

I am not familiar with Publisher 2002 and its workings. One of my bosses was
creating a company news letter and while inserting, rather large, pictures
she crashed and it saved all the work as a .tmp.

I tried renaming the file to a .pub with no avail.

I am primarily interested in recovering the text.

Any hints or suggestions would be greatly apprieciated!

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Mary Sauer]

Try Open, files of type, scroll down to "recover text from any file" and browse to
the file.

 

[Jim]

Thanks for the idea.

Although it didn't work. It converts about 50% of the file then bogs my
machine down.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Did the file have a lot of images? Try sliding down the acceleration some,
right-click the desktop, properties, settings, advanced button, troubleshoot tab...

 

[Jim]

That didn't work either.

When I open it to recover the text I can see it but it seems once it gets to
pictures thats when it hangs.

Is there some way I can edit the .tmp file to remove the images?

Thanks again for your help Mary!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Jim, I don't know how you can recover the file. If you want to send it to me I will
give it a go.
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