Thanks Lesley,I tried it. Unfortunately it didn't work. I googled a bit and
there are couple guys that can do this (recovering) for money. Do you think
it's worthwhile to send them the files?Michael> Subject: RE: SOS - CORRUPT
FILES> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:00:57 -0400> From: lsmalley at infocon.com>
To: biozaichenko at hotmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com> > You can try
the "heroic open" command: ESC o H > > (three key presses: Escape, lowercase
OH, capital H)> > If it works (no guarantees, unfortunately) immediately save
the file> to a new directory / name and close it - do not try to edit it. > >
Then open the new file the normal way and see what you have.> > Never screw
around (um edit) with the Frame binary file in a text > editor like notepad.
FrameMaker builds a check-sum into the file,> and even if the number of bytes
doesn't change, you'll almost > certainly mess up the checksum.> > On Friday,
June 22, 2007 08:19 PM, Michael Zaichenko wrote:> > | Hello Framers, recently I
had a machine with a bunch of FM > | files being backed up in progress - crash!
It crashed so bad > | that about half of all of my FM files went corrupt and I
> | can't open them anymore. Is there any means to fix them or > | recover or
whatever. The files appear all fine - I can open > | them with notepad, etc.
but not FrameMaker. They have correct > | size too. Thoughts? Michael> > -
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