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Ahnold
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Help!

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem that I've been having. I opened up one of my edexcel documents today, and discovered to my great annoyance that the text is now all gibberish {such as this: GIF89a�!D}. It's quite an important document, and I can't re-write it from scratch; is there any way to recover the original info? I just don't know why this has happened all of a sudden ...

Many thanks,

Ahnold

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Clovie

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try opening it in notebook maybe.
no other idea. sowwie

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The Inkeeper
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Help! i need sombody, HELP, not just anybody, help! wont you pleeease please help me?

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Ahnold
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Any other suggestions?

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Sep 1st, 2004 12:32 PM

yerssot
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well, I saw this one you posted it yesterday and before being hasty and replying something I tried to find more out about it
Idea was to check if it can be Windows 95 compatible or not but I can't seem to find that option again messed

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The Inkeeper
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Why is this guy banned now?

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Paola
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format your hard disk!! big grin

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Clovie

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quote:
Originally posted by Darth Sauron
Why is this guy banned now?

he's not.
new trick aparently.

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Sep 1st, 2004 07:06 PM

Ahnold
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quote:
Originally posted by Clovie
He's not.
new trick aparently.

Heh - guess nothing gets past you stick out tongue

! Cool trick though ...

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Sep 1st, 2004 07:17 PM

Clovie

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it is very easy to check if someone is banned.
you can't pm banned person. erm

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Sep 1st, 2004 07:26 PM

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Really though, how do you do that?

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Ahnold
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I can't tell you, I've been banned stick out tongue

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Clovie

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"i" is more pinkish..... messed

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the i is...weird, that's why yes

it's like an "i" with a half space confused

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Raz
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Re: Help!

quote:
Originally posted by Ahnold
Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem that I've been having. I opened up one of my edexcel documents today, and discovered to my great annoyance that the text is now all gibberish {such as this: GIF89a�!D}. It's quite an important document, and I can't re-write it from scratch; is there any way to recover the original info? I just don't know why this has happened all of a sudden ...

Many thanks,

Ahnold

Thats not an excel document but a GIF image. You'll notice it begins with the "GIF89a" - thats the header used by all GIF images. You can rename that with a gif extention and open it.

Did your computer crash lately? It looks like scan disk did a poor job at recovering your files.

Regarding your original data, I would suggest using Windows search feature to scan for a certain string that you know exists in the file your looking for. It may have been renamed to something else.

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Ahnold
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Trust me, raz - it's an excel document. Is it possible that it says GIF because of the graphs that were saved to that file?

And yes - my computer DID crash lately. In fact, I was kinda hoping for some help in that regard. According to the computer, I am now using a temporary account; is there any way I can change this?

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Sep 2nd, 2004 03:01 PM

Ahnold
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According to excel, that file is "delimited". What on earth does that mean?

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Sep 2nd, 2004 03:15 PM

Ahnold
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Problem over folks - I thankfully managed to restore the excel document to its former incarnation. Phew!

Can anyone help me with THIS problem though?

quote:
Originally posted by Ahnold
My computer crashed lately. In fact, I was kinda hoping for some help in that regard. According to the computer, I am now using a temporary account; is there any way I can change this?

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Sep 2nd, 2004 04:05 PM

Raz
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What do you mean by "temporary account"? Can you expand?

Also what OS are you using?

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Sep 2nd, 2004 04:30 PM

Ahnold
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Basically, my computer consists of four user accounts: one for me, and three others for the rest of my family. A while back, my account crashed for some reason, and the computer set up what it called a "temporary user account". Though I thankfully managed to recover all my documents, programs etc, I fear that this temporary account might not last indefinitly. I can tell it's still a temporary account since it says TEMP before the name of each document: E.g. TEMP/My Documents/KMC. What can I do to correct this?

What's OS blink

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