Accessing an archived FM file that shows as view only

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Rene,

Open the document and press (in sequence) Escape F l k (where the l is a 
lower-case L).

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> Hi All,
>
>  We've got an odd problem with an FM file (v 7.2b128 Win). When the doc 
> was released, the writer used the (timesaving and fabulously thorough) 
> Archive plugin to archive the project files and then used WinZip to create 
> a .zip archive (unencrypted) of the files. Shortly thereafter, the 
> original files were purged and only the .zip of the archived files 
> remains.
>
>  Today, we had to access the FM files from that zipped archive, and 
> everything restored in workable fashion, except for one chapter file, 
> which is now opening as view only, no matter what we do. We checked attrib 
> and it's not set to read-only. It's like it was locked for editing when 
> the archive was created, but we don't know for sure; that's just the only 
> explanation I can imagine for how we could find ourselves in this spot, 
> based on my experience with having opened files while they're locked by 
> another user. The Archive plugin didn't give an error or note as much in 
> the log, though, so that may not be the reason at all.
>
>  Regardless, we're in the rather untenable position of having to find a 
> way to get an editable version of an FM file from the view-only version of 
> it, with no record of a .lck file for it and no other version of the FM 
> file available. The view-only version has conditional text hidden that we 
> now need to show in the new version, so although I have been able to 
> convert the view-only file to TXT, all the hidden text was omitted from 
> the TXT version.
>
>  I did try to dig through the archives, but...I'm coming up empty-handed. 
> Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Rene Stephenson