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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: Recovering Pagemaker Files?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 17:04:16 GMT
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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!).
#>
#>- Paul.

Did you try the Revert option in the File menu? I know
it works while you are in the same session. I haven't
tried it on a saved file. If that doesn't work, check
with Aldus Tech Support; that's what they are for. You are
right that PageMaker saves the previous version, which
is why the file is so big. You can save a lot of disk
space by using Save As and not changing the file name,
which then saves only the current version (which is,
of course, not what you want to do in this case).

See the manual, page 1-34, for a fuller, though somewhat
cryptic explanation of the Revert command. The reference
manual has a longer explanation of what PageMaker saves
in section 5.

Steve Goldfield