Pagemaker file corruption

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

I post this reluctantly as I am unsure of the circumstances of occurence. But, here goes. I have users who are runnning Pagemaker 6.5 and having a few occurences of unexplained Pagemaker File corruption. Supposedly they have been acting properly, then one day they came in and the files no longer worked.  That is, upon attmpting to open they get a "File can not be opened..." and they are prompted to choose between the "Last Saved"  and "Most Recent" backup. Clicking on "Last Saved" will cause Pagemaker to have crash crying "Type 1", "Most Recent" will say that "There is no mini-saved version" (a Pagemaker deal I presume).

Now, I have observed that if the computer hangs while running an application from the server,  that application no longer is recognized with the proper creator type. It becomes simpletext. Using resedit to restore creator type doesn't seem to help. But these pagemaker files display the proper creator type, until that is you try to open them in Pagemaker and if you select "Last Saved" and crash the program, they sometimes revert to simple text.

File sizes are staying the same however, so I know that the data are still there.

Any suggestions?

Robert Burgholzer

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Robert W. Burgholzer
Director of Technology
Sandy Spring Friends School
301-774-7455x111
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