On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 9:54:53 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > > Anybody know how to recover old MS Word 2003 files where I've lost the > password? >
*Maybe* ... These are some solutions out there to be found through an internet query. A few of them look relatively simple. How practical it will be, even if they work, will depend on how many files you've got. If you would like to post one example, I'll see what I can do - just attach it to your reply. Now, about automatically ingesting these old files. It depends on how they are structured. If they are just text, and you haven't done anything depending on formatting or tables or other word processing features, then it can be done easily, at least if they are text files. If they are old Word files, even if not password protected, it remains to be seen (maybe some else reading this will know). The thing is that converting documents one at a time can be stultifying and time consuming if there are a lot of them. So I would be looking for a way to automate it. LibreOffice can read old Word files, I believe, and it can be scripted. That might be a route. And there are other possibilities. OTOH, if you have a lot of password protected files from long ago, you probably haven't looked at them for many years. So maybe they aren't too important after all! > OK, one more item: I'm on board with the notion of making zettels short, > keeping the thought atomic. I see the value of that, but I won't always be > able to do it. I have a goodly number of non-atomic thoughts, even essays, > book chapters... But I want them in my ThoughtBase nonetheless. Also, I > will be drawing on groups of zettels to write longer pieces, possibly > someday a book or two (Luhmann wrote 60 books from his zettelkasten). I > realize that at some point you need to take it elsewhere (Scrivener or > whatever) to finish it, but I can imagine doing most everything up to rough > draft in Zettelkasten. IOW I feel I need to have no limit on zettel size > I don't see any technical problem with having long notes. As long as a paragraph break isn't considered to be a block marker, the number of paragraphs shouldn't matter. > Earlier you suggested starting a new thread. Are we coming to a good point > to do that? I lean upon your best judgement; no strong opinion either way. > You're probably right. Let me think on it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/0be8b7e2-3e2c-4fdd-92b2-194af6d48109%40googlegroups.com.
