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From: moku@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Mark Francillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
Message-ID: <1825@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 22:32:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1825
Posted: Mon May 25 22:32:26 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 05:41:08 EDT
References: <365@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: moku@sphinx.UUCP (Mark Francillon)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes temp files

In article <365@sdics.ucsd.EDU> norman@sdics.UUCP (Donald A. Norman) writes:

[document blows up]
>
>There is a Word Temp 44 file some 77K long.  Word can't load it.
>
>In desperation, I change the TYPE and CREATOR on the Word Temp file to
>be WDBN and MSWD and just try loading the temp file into Word 3.  It
>works! I only lose 2 hours of stuff (I back up every few minutes --
>why did I lose 2 hours?)
>
I've had to do this too.  Nice that it works, but very risky business,
since there's no telling -as far as I can see- when or whether Word's going
to write out one of these temps (This also means the temp isn't just the
last save, so saving every few minutes isn't necessarily going to help you
here).  I've found that the recovered file is sometimes still in a strange
state (i.e., the original problem may reappear).  Cutting the contents and
pasting them into a new document seems to help.

>The Table of Contents suddenly stopped working a week ago.  That is,
>it works fine on short files, bombs, consistently on long files.  It
>used to be an essential feature.  Now it is useless.  It seemed to

Wait 'til you get to indexing.


Special Memorial Day bomb-o'-the-day: open a file and split the screen 
(either a regular split screen or a footnote window will do); put the
insertion point in the upper pane and click in the lower pane within
an eighth of an inch or so of the bottom of the window.  Cherry bomb =02
every time.  Footnoters beware.

Mark Francillon
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
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