The Heroic Open results in a less dramatic "Framemaker has to close" shutdown, but a crash nevertheless.
Carol At 11:07 AM 9/6/2013, Kathy Visger wrote: >Have you tried the heroic open? Esc+O+H. That used to work in Frame >v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11. > >-----Original Message----- >From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins >Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:04 AM >To: framers at omsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way? > >I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I spent yesterday writing content for >a new chapter in a book, thus there is no backup from a previous day. >Nor did I print a copy of the in-progress chapter before I quit for >the evening. When I shut down last night, Framemaker was happy with >the chapter. This morning, FM crashes immediately upon opening the >file. The generated error log file is not helpful; it reports >several internal errors with multi-digit meaningless numbers. The >crash is duplicated when opening the file on my laptop running the >same OS and FM version. > >To test if it might be a corrupted graphic, I renamed the referenced >graphics folder and told FM to ignore missing graphics when opening >the file. The file still crashed FM. > >At this point, I desperately need to get access to the content of >the file so that I can copy the text that I've already written and >start over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the >ASCII text? > >Carol > >****************************************** >Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC >Making Information Understandable >Phone: 719-948-3773 >mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com >http://www.awrittenword.com >******************************************* > >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to framers as kathyv at xilinx.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kathyv%40xilinx.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > >This email and any attachments are intended for the sole use of the >named recipient(s) and contain(s) confidential information that may >be proprietary, privileged or copyrighted under applicable law. If >you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, or forward >this email message or any attachments. Delete this email message and >any attachments immediately.