Comments disappear after saving as 2002 drawing (Visio 2003)

[Kaeru]

Hi all,

Today I marked up a visio 2002 drawing with a lot of comments. I'm using
visio 2003, but want to be backwards compatible with 2002. After finishing
the comments, I saved and closed the file. Nothing odd happened. I was very
surprised to find all the comments gone when I opened the file again later
on. I've tried to reproduce this behaviour, and have succeeded. Saving a
drawing as a 2002 file in visio 2003 deletes all markup fropm the file!

I'm really anctious to get those comments back. Anyone know a way to salvage
all those comments from the (untouched) visio 2002 file? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Kars Alfrink, the Netherlands

 

[Al Edlund]

visio 2003 stores it's comments in an 'annotations' section, which was new
to 2003, and not available in 2002.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...sdk11/html/viconWhatsNewSS2003_HV01046253.asp

al

 

[Kaeru]

Hi Al,

Thanks for the quick reply. Does that mean the comments are lost? Or is
there some way to retrieve them? I can't imagine they're discarded without
warning...

Regards,

Kars

 

[Al Edlund]

I would suspect they are lost (unless you kept the v2003 version).
al