Visio and Visio Viewer Question

[J~]

I am trying to open a VSD file but it has characters after the .VSD

example
test.vsd@@/red/template

I can't seem to open it but I know others at work can. I am trying to
figure this out, anybody out there have any idea of what is going on? I
have downloaded the newest Viewer ( as of last week) incase that was
problem but did not help me.

We are a small company with no real help desk to ask.

thanks,
J~

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Visio and the Visio Viewer will only open files with legitimate 3 character
extensions to my knowledge.

 

[Dr. Claw]

i have the exact same problem in visio. i'm doing a mojor project for uni and
try to open my file when i got the error error 1 "unexpected end of file". so
was just wondering if you by chance have figured out a solution.
thanks ken

 

[J~]

I have not figured it out yet but I do know 2 other people here can do this.

J~

 

[J~]

Ok, after a bit of work here is what I know:

visio 2000 does not mind the "@@\red\blue" addition to end of file
Visio 2002+ does have a problem with it.

I have done full local installs in all cases, any ideas of what might
have change between 2000 and 2002/2003 that would stop if form working?

thanks,
J~