Recovering delelted file

[bizerque]

I have recovered a publisher file -web page layout from my flash drive that I
accidentally deleted. I cannot, however, get it to open in publisher again.
Any suggestions?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have recovered a publisher file -web page layout from my flash drive that I
accidentally deleted. I cannot, however, get it to open in publisher again.
Any suggestions?

Are you sure you recovered the file, or did you merely recover a
shortcut to the missing file?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Copy the file to your hard drive and try to open again, if it still won't open:

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

 

[Jan Kucera]

No of the steps written there does recover your publication if the file is
just cutted out, eg. when the Publisher crashed during save. What to do with
such file (uncompleted file may be the issue of bizerque as well)?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Hello Jan,
Explain what you are trying to do. Obviously English is not your first language.
What is bizerque?

 

[Jan Kucera]

Hi Mary,
bizerque is nick of the user who started the thread. I am trying to ask
how to open a .pub file which is cutted.
Thank you for constructive cricism of my knowledge of English.

Jan

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have Norton?

How to use Office programs with the Norton AntiVirus Office plug-in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329820/en-us

Are you getting an error?
You may get lucky and Publisher created a temporary file
In Windows Explorer, type %temp% in the address bar. Look for any file with a
pub prefix, rename the extension from .tmp to .pub

I hope I did not offend you. I should have been more attentive to the original
post.

 

[bizerque]

Copy the file to your hard drive and try to open again, if it still won't open:

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

-- THanks for the tips and the link to the troubleshooting. I tried them all and nothing seemed to work. I have just about given up and am back to starting the task again. It has been very frustrating because I have all the information recovered, but publisher just will not accept it...perhaps because it was a layout for a web page for a school's PE department that included many pictures and about 10 pages of "designs", there was too much for publisher to decode back to its original form. I can see the text and the pictures, but publusher will not open! Anyway, thanks and I am back to the drawing board.
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you want, send it to me, I will try to open it with a different version of
Publisher.

mary-sauer at columbus.rr.com

 

[Jan Kucera]

Hi Mary,
thanks for reply. No, I don't use any antivirus. I'm not sure how could I
technically describe the file I have. Imagine Publisher is saving file to
the disk and it crashes in middle of this task. So let's say there is the
first half of the pub file. Is it possible to get the data from there?
Regarding my publication I did it over again, but I'm asking in case it
happens again.

I hope I did not offend you. I should have been more attentive to the
original post.

That's okay Mary, English is not my first language and I do mistakes.
Actually I see couple of them when reading my post and feel ashamed for
them. I always welcome any language correction of my posts, I just haven't
learned anything from your note.

I really appreciate your kindly help for all.
Jan.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Are you by chance trying to open an htm file in Pub?

Mike

 

[Mary Sauer]

Never, never save to a removable disk. Save to the hard drive, copy to the
removable disk. When you are ready to edit the file, re-copy to the hard drive,
do the edits, save and then re-copy to the removable disk.

 

[Jan Kucera]

That's true, however, if Publisher crashes during saving, it does not matter
whether it was saving to the hard drive or removable disk.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't know what the solution is for damage done while saving. The search in
the temp folder might help.
There are recovery programs that could recover your file from the flash drive.
Some of these programs are pricy.
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=disk+recovery&mkt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP&go.x=10&go.y=9