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

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}. 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

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

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

Any other suggestions?

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 😖

Why is this guy banned now?

format your hard disk!! 😄

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

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

Heh - guess nothing gets past you 😛 ! Cool trick though ...

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

Really though, how do you do that?

I can't tell you, I've been banned 😛

"i" is more pinkish..... 😖

the i is...weird, that's why ✅

it's like an "i" with a half space 😕

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

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.

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?

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

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

Can anyone help me with THIS problem though?

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?

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

Also what OS are you using?

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 😑 ?