I second the recommendation. You never know what parts of a drive may
be suffering bitrot, especially if you use the drive a lot!
Grant
On 10/21/2011 7:03 AM, keith.sol...@tmx.com wrote:
If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
SpinRite. It's a low-level disk
I second the recommendation. You never know what parts of a drive may
be suffering bitrot, especially if you use the drive a lot!
Grant
On 10/21/2011 7:03 AM, Keith.Soltys at tmx.com wrote:
> If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
> SpinRite. It's a low-level
If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
SpinRite. It's a low-level disk repair utility and has saved my bacon on
more than one occasion.
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
I'm not sure if it would work on an external drive (if it's though a USB
interface). If the
Too bad about the file, but at least you can recover...
Yeah, MIF-wash is always a good thing. If you have a large herd of files,
download the MIF2Go eval from Omsys.com. It installs a MIF-Wash utility on
your Files menu that lets you process books worth of files with one click.
Stays active even
Too bad about the file, but at least you can recover...
Yeah, MIF-wash is always a good thing. If you have a large herd of files,
download the MIF2Go eval from Omsys.com. It installs a MIF-Wash utility on
your Files menu that lets you process books worth of files with one click.
Stays active even
If the problem is hard-drive related, I strongly recommend getting GRC's
SpinRite. It's a low-level disk repair utility and has saved my bacon on
more than one occasion.
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
I'm not sure if it would work on an external drive (if it's though a USB
interface). If the
Hi Framers,
I've read a few threads on this in the archives but didn't get how
they could help solve this problem.
Using FM 9.0p255 on a virtual PC, Windows 7, via Parallels.
I have a set of well-established files on an external HD that I take
between home and office to work on the files
To get it open, I'd try the undocumented Heroic Open command. I haven't
tried it in 9, so I'll assume it's there.
Open FM and create a new, empty file. Leave it open.
Type ESC, o, and Shift+h -- the Open File box should appear. If the file
opens, save it with a new name, and maybe save it as a
Hi Art,
Tried the heroic open command (yes, it's there in 9) but got same result.
Also tried various right-click options but so far they all result in
a blank document.
Probably worth running that MIF wash as a precaution.
I thought my HD WAS safer than the thumb drive I had been using
Hi Framers,
I've read a few threads on this in the archives but didn't get how
they could help solve this problem.
Using FM 9.0p255 on a virtual PC, Windows 7, via Parallels.
I have a set of well-established files on an external HD that I take
between home and office to work on the files
To get it open, I'd try the undocumented "Heroic Open" command. I haven't
tried it in 9, so I'll assume it's there.
Open FM and create a new, empty file. Leave it open.
Type ESC, o, and Shift+h -- the Open File box should appear. If the file
opens, save it with a new name, and maybe save it as a
Hi Art,
Tried the heroic open command (yes, it's there in 9) but got same result.
Also tried various right-click options but so far they all result in
a blank document.
Probably worth running that MIF wash as a precaution.
I thought my HD WAS safer than the thumb drive I had been using
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