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From: wingbean@blake.acs.washington.edu (The Flying Legume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Pagemaker Files?
Message-ID: <4712@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 07:03:16 GMT
References: <191@tenset.UUCP>
Reply-To: wingbean@blake.acs.washington.edu (The Flying Legume)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <191@tenset.UUCP> paul@tenset.UUCP (Paul Andrews) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way of recovering data from a damaged PageMaker 3
>file? Actually the file isn't 'damaged'. I used 'Save' when I meant to
>use 'Save as...'. The result is I saved a document with 2 pages over a
>document that had 40 something pages. The file however is still 1.7MB
>big, so I assume that most of the information is in there somewhere.
>The question is can I get at it? If anyone knows of a way of doing this
>(maybe there's a recovery app that might be able to do something?) 
>I will be very grateful (as I'm sure you can imagine, and no there isn't
>a backup!).


Well, I hate to say this, but you may be S.O.L....  PageMakers file structure
is a database structure and as such its pointers get rather messy, making
it rather impossible to reconstruct.  A lot of the text will still be there and you can use a file editor to pull the text strings out if you still need that.

The reason that the file size is still large is that the data is still around
until you do a save as.. The only possibility I can suggest is see if there are any temporary files i the PM folder or in the System folder and rename them and
try to open them.