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"Roy Brown" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> "Jim Phillips" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> news:a3bn3s0oc0@enews4.newsguy.com...
> > Does anyone have any ideas about how to recover a document in MS Works?
> > Some guy here was working on an existing document when he got the
> > "Application has performed an illegal operation" message and Works shut
> > down.  Now the document exists, but is empty.  The document had been saved
> > prior to the "illegal operation" message, so I'm hoping there is a way to
> > recover this.
>
> Welcome to a taster of the post-HP3000 world :-(
>
> If 'the document exists but is empty' under the name it was saved to in the
> prior save, then I fear Works has blatted it.
>
> Your first step is to make sure no further saving is done on the affected
> machine (oops, too late, I bet).
>
> Second step is to search the machine for files starting with a tilde ~
> These are the temporary files, and it's just possible there is one with the
> document in it. Look for  ~ files around the right date and time, and around
> the right size. Open any likely candidates with Notepad (not Works), and see
> if the contents are recognisable.
> Expect to recover your text maybe, but not your formatting. Though if you
> find something that looks pretty intact, copy it off that machine (floppy,
> over the network, but *not* back to the original machine's hard drive) with
> a new name and a Works extension, and see if Works will open it (on that
> different machine).
>
> If all this turns up nothing useful, the next step is to use an Undelete
> program (Norton, etc), and see if your document, or a recent draft of it is
> lurking deleted but still intact on that machine. Again *don't* install an
> Undelete on the machine; use it from a floppy, or whatever.
>
> Good hunting!

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