Recovering the NAME of a damaged document

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Ian Turner

A friend (no; really, it IS a friend and NOT me!) has
damaged the format of their hard disk. I can recover all
5,000 of the files with a .doc extension (MS Word 2000)
and they have been successfully transfered to a new disk.

BUT..... the recovery software has renamed them
all 'Recovered Document number xxx'. If we open the docs,
the title is the first letters/words of the first typing
text.

Our question: is the 'name' of the document 'embedded
within the text of each document other than that of
the 'name'?

Secondly, is there any sofware that will allow us
to 'see' that 'emmebedded' name and allow us to renane
the documents AUTOMATICALLY based on that 'embedded' name?

Finally, if we can't get the 'name'; can we get the time
of last modification or the creation date from within the
body of the document because the (dos-like 8.3 or
64.3) 'file name structure' has been lost?

ian
 

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