Could you email it as an attachment to someone who has Final Cut Pro
and Textedit; maybe they can open it, save it as another form of text
file and return it to you? They would get the benefit of your "manual",
too.
On Apr 14, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Tom Baker wrote:
On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:34 AM, Michele Forrester wrote:
On 4/14/05 Tom Baker wrote:
Edie,
Thanks for the tips. I downloaded both those apps, and they're
pretty neat, especially Text Wrangler.
But when they open those broken TextEdit docs they just show a blank
page. So I guess the info is gone. I can't figure out how it
happened, but I'm not going to trust TextEdit with important data
anymore.
Anyway, I'll get some use out of these neat text programs you
pointed me to. So some good came of this, thanks to you and the
others trying to help. I appreciate it.
You might try the application CanOpener...it opens all types of
things and is from Abbott Systems...you might be able to download it
as a trial application and try it...It shows all the junk, etc...like
you say, if the size is correct there must be SOMETHING there!
Michele
Michelle, yes I'm sure there's still something there, or else Get Info
wouldn't show it as 32 kb. A new, empty TextEdit doc shows only a
couple of kb.
The app you pointed me to, CanOpener, (I found it at
http://www.abbottsystems.com/co.html) looks like a possible way to
recover it, all right, and if so it would be worth the $65 they ask
for it, but they don't allow any trial use, and I'm not rich enough to
gamble that it would work in this case.
Of the two TextEdit docs that broke, and now refuse to open, the one
that I'd really like to recover was my running collection of tips how
to do things in Final Cut Express. As anyone knows who has tried that
video editing program, the learning curve is steep, and I was writing
down and saving every important thing I learned in that doc as I went
along. Then whenever I got stuck trying to do something that I'd
already figured out before, just forgot how, I could go back to this
doc and look it up and remind myself how to do it. I was sort of
writing my own user's manual. It was a great learning tool. And
somehow it seems to have just self-destructed. TextEdit just can't
open it anymore.
Thanks for the attempt to help!
Tom
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