can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?

[Carol J. Elkins]

The Heroic Open results in a less dramatic "Framemaker has to close" 
shutdown, but a crash nevertheless.

Carol

At 11:07 AM 9/6/2013, Kathy Visger wrote:
>Have you tried the heroic open? Esc+O+H. That used to work in Frame 
>v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11.
>
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>Subject: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?
>
>I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I spent yesterday writing content for 
>a new chapter in a book, thus there is no backup from a previous day.
>Nor did I print a copy of the in-progress chapter before I quit for 
>the evening. When I shut down last night, Framemaker was happy with 
>the chapter. This morning, FM crashes immediately upon opening the 
>file. The generated error log file is not helpful; it reports 
>several internal errors with multi-digit meaningless numbers. The 
>crash is duplicated when opening the file on my laptop running the 
>same OS and FM version.
>
>To test if it might be a corrupted graphic, I renamed the referenced 
>graphics folder and told FM to ignore missing graphics when opening 
>the file. The file still crashed FM.
>
>At this point, I desperately need to get access to the content of 
>the file so that I can copy the text that I've already written and 
>start over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the 
>ASCII text?
>
>Carol
>
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