Notepad and Lost File

12-28-2007

Recently I was typing and the file "shut" down, the screen went gray and I
lost the entire file. I was editing an already started file on my flash disk
thus it was was not on the computer hard drive. When asked to recover it
receovered in Notepad, but only a small fraction of the actual content opened
up and the rest was question marks, numbers and other jibberish. Is there a
way to recover this file?

12-28-2007

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:20:02 -0800, BSS
<BSS@xxxxxx> wrote:

	Quote:
	> Recently I was typing and the file "shut" down, the screen went gray and I > lost the entire file. I was editing an already started file on my flash disk > thus it was was not on the computer hard drive. When asked to recover it > receovered in Notepad, but only a small fraction of the actual content opened > up and the rest was question marks, numbers and other jibberish. Is there a > way to recover this file?

No. That's why whenever you do such editing, you should save it
frequently.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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12-28-2007

It's also a really good idea, to copy the file off the flash disk, edit it
on the computer, and then copy it back to the flash disk.

It only takes a second, and is far more bullet proof.

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:20:02 -0800, BSS
> <BSS@xxxxxx> wrote:
>

	Quote:
	>> Recently I was typing and the file "shut" down, the screen went gray and >> I >> lost the entire file. I was editing an already started file on my flash >> disk >> thus it was was not on the computer hard drive. When asked to recover it >> receovered in Notepad, but only a small fraction of the actual content >> opened >> up and the rest was question marks, numbers and other jibberish. Is there >> a >> way to recover this file?

>
>
> No. That's why whenever you do such editing, you should save it
> frequently.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

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BSS Guest	Notepad and Lost File Recently I was typing and the file "shut" down, the screen went gray and I lost the entire file. I was editing an already started file on my flash disk thus it was was not on the computer hard drive. When asked to recover it receovered in Notepad, but only a small fraction of the actual content opened up and the rest was question marks, numbers and other jibberish. Is there a way to recover this file?

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