My hex editor shows every byte in the files have been set to zero. I am wondering if this was a weird side effect of Mac OS 10.5.6 and PGP. At this point I am going to believe the files are not recoverable. :)
Paul On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM, John McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the next step would be to use a binary/hex editor on the file to > see what's going on. > > You definitely have something odd with that file. I've never seen that > level of corruption in a taf or tcf file. > > /John > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Paul Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am using BBedit to view the html files. View --> Text Display --> Show >> Invisibles: shows 30663 upside down question marks and that is it. Is it >> safe to assume my taf files are no longer text files? One of my working taf >> files does correctly display as an xml file in BBedit. >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM, John McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The Witango Studio saves files with inconsistent newlines... try using a >>> program like "dos2unix" or "unix2dos" to make the endline characters >>> consistent. >>> >>> /John >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Paul Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> It does not look too promising. The taf files appear to be empty in >>>> both of my XML editors. One of the files is 35KB and the other is 3.5KB in >>>> size. The only clue I have is an error is the following error when the >>>> file >>>> is loaded into Oxygen: >>>> "This document contains long lines which may affect performance when >>>> opened in the text editor. The longest line contains 30662 characters. This >>>> warning is displayed for lines which contain more than 5000 characters (see >>>> the Open/Save page from Preferences)." >>>> >>>> I will look into it further. >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Open the files up in a plain text editor, or XML aware plain text >>>>> editor an look for xml syntax problems. Something is probably corrupt. >>>>> >>>>> Hopefully you use some form of source code control, or revision control >>>>> system like SVN or CVS etc.. so you can do a diff and see what's changed. >>>>> >>>>> /John >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Paul Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> Yesterday, I was working on a couple of taf files in Witango Studio >>>>>> 5.5 running in Windows XP under Parallels on a Mac OS 10.5.6 machine. >>>>>> Today >>>>>> when I tried to open the files the following error occurred: >>>>>> >>>>>> "One or more files could not be opened. The File(s) may be run-only, >>>>>> locked or may have been deleted or moved." >>>>>> >>>>>> The files have not been deleted or moved. I checked and the files are >>>>>> not run-only nor locked. As well, on the OS X side I double checked the >>>>>> ownership of the files and made sure the file permissions were open. >>>>>> >>>>>> My Witango server (5.5) is running on the Mac side. >>>>>> >>>>>> Has any one seen this before and/or have any ideas about how to >>>>>> possibly open these files? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you, >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> /John >>>>> >>>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> /John >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >>> >>> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >> >> > > > -- > /John > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
