To expand on BBEdit's capabilities a little: When you use BBEdit's "Open" command to open a file, one of the options you can choose is to open "Any File". BBEdit will then open literally _any_ file, whether its a graphic file or a corrupted file or whatever.
What you will see will sometimes be "garbage" characters that mean nothing to you, but may mean something to someone who can translate hexadecimal... or in the case of a database file that is corrupted, you may be able to extact the data you want and save it as, say, a tab-delimited text file that can then be imported into another database or spreadsheet. The full version of BBEdit has also allows "grep" searching, which is a very powerful way to find and replace repeating patterns of text or line-break or line-spacing characters. In short, BBEdit is, in my opinion, an indispensable recovery tool and all-around text-manipulation utility. Dan >BBEdit Lite is a free download at barebones.com. You *might* be able >save some data by converting the corrupted file to text. I have an >appointment this evening to attempt the exact same rescue, wish us >luck...vD > >The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 25. >For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 25. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>.
