The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
My work pc is experiencing problems. Word is going crazy inserting blank pages into my thesis documents - where they are wholely unwelcome and annoying. Looks like one of my chapters is corrupted, and all of today's work is gone.
one of my chapters is corrupted, and all of today's work is gone.
I'm sorry to hear that...But haven't you made a back-up copy? Maybe it's my genes or my cultural background but I have always a back-up, because you can't trust technology!
Not sure what your choice of trousers has to do with it Cal, but I'm inclined to agree with you on ther other point. Where's the backup Copp?
Word can be pretty temperamental at times. Have you tried swearing inventively at it?
Not much you can do about corrupted files, unfortunately. Unless you network guys take daily backups in which case you might be able to get a copy of your file as at yesterday from them. This is where fluttering eyelashes and/or empty promises of baked confections come in handy.
sympathy to you copper - and ignore these meanies, quite obviously they back everything up every ten minutes.. as opposed to doing a backup every day as a less anal person might do - i hope you find it?
Right, before you do anything else make few copies of your file (yes, the corrupt one). Anything you try, try it on a fresh copy, 'cos otherwise you could end up corrupting it more.
Have you tried opening it with a text reader? You'll probably have Wordpad (guessing too big for notepad), if you're lucky you may have something like UltraEdit (nicer to work with). It's only a slim chance, so don't go getting your hopes up, but sometimes if it corrupts it just totally screws the formatting, but you can recover the text.
Any nice IT people in your department? Make sure it's someone with a degree, as they're more likely to understand your despair (preferably not an IT degree, no idea why, just something I've noticed). There are recovery programs out there. Bribe them.
Sometimes you can track down a temp file from before it corrupted - if it's not too late to say this, don't switch your PC off.
Is it stored on a server or on your PC?
Oh, and sometime's luck's more important than anything else for recovering stuff, so here's lots from me!
I left the tech crew at it last night, sent lots of good vibes and happy thoughts to my pc from home, and viola, the page count of chapter 5 is stable and smug at 27.
