SOS - CORRUPT FILES

[Art Campbell]

Lester omitted one part of the instructions... you need to already
have a FM file open before you attempt the "Esc,o,H" sequence...

Art

On 6/22/07, Lester C. Smalley <lsmalley at infocon.com> wrote:
> You can try the "heroic open" command: ESC o  H
>
>   (three key presses: Escape, lowercase OH, capital H)
>
> If it works (no guarantees, unfortunately) immediately save the file
> to a new directory / name and close it - do not try to edit it.
>
> Then open the new file the normal way and see what you have.
>
> Never screw around (um edit) with the Frame binary file in a text
> editor like  notepad.  FrameMaker builds a check-sum into the file,
> and even if the number of bytes doesn't change, you'll almost
> certainly mess up the checksum.
>
> On Friday, June 22, 2007 08:19 PM, Michael Zaichenko wrote:
>
> | Hello Framers, recently I had a machine with a bunch of FM
> | files being backed up in progress - crash! It crashed so bad
> | that about half of all of my FM files went corrupt and I
> | can't open them anymore. Is there any means to fix them or
> | recover or whatever. The files appear all fine - I can open
> | them with notepad, etc. but not FrameMaker. They have correct
> | size too. Thoughts? Michael
>
> - Lester
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