Help! Cannot load in .pub file!

[Bill Lattery]

A have a 33 meg document that I have been working on for
a while now. Then one day last week, I get this error
message when I tried to work on my doc:

"MSPUB.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error
log has been created."

This is Publisher 2000 installed on a Windows 2000 PC. I
uninstalled publisher and re-installed it. I also can
load in other .pub files. It appears that this one is
corrupted. What can I do?

Also, where is the error log file found?

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Q198256 - PUB2000: How to Troubleshoot a Damaged Publication

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/2/56.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

33Mb is not an issue for the size of the document.

Check MS KB Q191131

If you do a search on your hard drive for a *.tmp and you can ascertain by the name it is your Publisher temporary file, rename name it with a *.PUB extension. 99% of the time this will work. Once you open it, immediately save it with SAVE AS and another name and delete the file you just opened, as it does not have full information in it. When a Publisher file does go corrupt the *.tmp file always remains, so you should be able to find it.

You may also find that it is only one particular page that is causing the corruption, and then you can open another instance of Publisher and copy and paste from the corrupt file, less the corrupt page to a new file in the other open copy of Publisher. You can have as many copies of Publisher open as your memory will allow. If you know that say page 6 is the corrupt page, when you get to page 5 and want to move forward, use the menu VIEW and select the option GO TO PAGE and put in page 7. Do not use the arrow keys on the status line to move forward.

What causes these files to go corrupt, is things like a power failure when there is part of the file in the cache, computer switched off without being shut down correctly, or a fairly major power surge.

When ever I leave Publisher open and leave my computer un-attended, I always just go menu FILE then CLOSE and open it again when I come back to use it.

Another known problem is when WordArt causes corruption, besides being the above, it can also be caused by a sub-standard True Type (often shareware or freeware) font that does not conform totally to the standard, of which there are 1,000s. QUALITY fonts are essential for trouble free Windows. People do not realise the importance of this.


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