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Old 12-28-2007   #1 (permalink)
BSS
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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?
Old 12-28-2007   #2 (permalink)
Ken Blake, MVP
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Re: Notepad and Lost File

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

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Old 12-28-2007   #3 (permalink)
Wandering
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Re: Notepad and Lost File

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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> 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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