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Supergirl55
While using a family desktop computer (rather than my personal laptop that I
normally use), I plugged in an external hard drive containing my Docoments
folder and thus was able to open and work with several of my Word documents.
Later, when I tried to open the same files on my laptop, I could not. I went
back to the desktop but could not open them there either. I've tried both of
Word's suggestions -- the "Recover Text" option and the "Open and Repair"
option -- when opening the files, but all I got was the same sort of
text/symbol gibberish you normally get when a file is corrupt. There's no
trace of my original content.
I have no idea how this happened, but I'd really like to fix it if I can. Is
there a way to translate those symbols into my original text? Or,
alternately: since I was using files stored on an external hard drive, might
there be pre-corrupt versions stored somewhere on the computer's own hard
drive? Maybe something like older auto-recover files?
I'm pretty much desperate...
normally use), I plugged in an external hard drive containing my Docoments
folder and thus was able to open and work with several of my Word documents.
Later, when I tried to open the same files on my laptop, I could not. I went
back to the desktop but could not open them there either. I've tried both of
Word's suggestions -- the "Recover Text" option and the "Open and Repair"
option -- when opening the files, but all I got was the same sort of
text/symbol gibberish you normally get when a file is corrupt. There's no
trace of my original content.
I have no idea how this happened, but I'd really like to fix it if I can. Is
there a way to translate those symbols into my original text? Or,
alternately: since I was using files stored on an external hard drive, might
there be pre-corrupt versions stored somewhere on the computer's own hard
drive? Maybe something like older auto-recover files?
I'm pretty much desperate...