Hi Art,
Tried the heroic open command (yes, it's there in 9) but got same result.
Also tried various right-click options but so far they all result in
a blank document.
Probably worth running that MIF wash as a precaution.
I thought my HD WAS safer than the thumb drive I had been using
before that! :-(
K
At 8:42 PM -0400 10/20/11, Art Campbell wrote:
To get it open, I'd try the undocumented "Heroic Open" command. I
haven't tried it in 9, so I'll assume it's there.
Open FM and create a new, empty file. Leave it open.
Type ESC, o, and Shift+h -- the Open File box should appear. If the
file opens, save it with a new name, and maybe save it as a MIF too.
****
If I were you, I'd MIF-wash all the files -- SaveAs MIF, open MIF,
and SaveAs .fm.
***
Also, I'd give serious consideration to transporting your files
between machines in a safer medium, such as Dropbox
(<http://www.getdropbox.com>www.getdropbox.com), which also gives
you great depth of backup files automatically.
Cheers,
Art
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Karen Robbins
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Framers,
I've read a few threads on this in the archives but didn't get how
they could help solve this problem.
Using FM 9.0p255 on a virtual PC, Windows 7, via Parallels.
I have a set of well-established files on an external HD that I take
between home and office to work on the files regularly. Yesterday,
one file generated the dreaded "unknown file type" error and nothing
seemed to open it. Because I'd had a modem power supply go bad
around the same time as I last worked on this file (at home), I
accepted the corruption and was able to restore the content from
other sources into a new file.
Today, a different file that was fine yesterday afternoon at home
now generates the same "unknown file type" error at the office. And
this file I don't relish reconstructing. The result is the same
whether I double-click from the Mac, open from the Windows desktop
or folder, or choose File>Open in Frame. From the Mac side it looks
like the permissions are OK; don't know how to check that on the PC
side.
I'm concerned that the problem is random and could affect any file
at any time--I can't back up every file every minute without
seriously slowing down my/the computer's efficiency and compromising
my already-tight deadline.
Are there any solutions to this problem? Something I missed or
misunderstood in the archives?
Thanks for any insight,
Karen
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