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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: Floid on May 06, 2005, 05:12:51 AM
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Yeah, I'm cashing in some brownie points on this one, and if you've been on #amiga.org, you've already heard it.
What I have -- one 25MB!? .indd, 'recovered' from a relative's USB stick with a nicely corrupted FAT (http://69.0.37.66/proj%204%20pages.indd).
What I could dearly use -- anyone owning a copy of InDesign (CS, most likely), to tell me if this looks like recoverable data (should be some pages of layout for a CD cover+booklet graphic design project), or if it's completely corrupt and garbage.
Any takers? :nervous:
[That link should stay active for about 12 hours, after which I'll have to assume it's trash if I can't confirm otherwise, anyway...]
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I've got InDesign around here somewhere. I'm downloading your file now, and I'll let you know whether it works or not.
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Should I assume the stunned silence means "/dev/urandom would have a better chance of parsing," or am I just not patient enough? (http://www.amiga.org/images/subject/icon15.gif)
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Can you also try the trial version of In Design (I think it has a 30 day limit, unfortunately I have used mine up)
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X-ray wrote:
Can you also try the trial version of In Design (I think it has a 30 day limit, unfortunately I have used mine up)
I had no idea there was one; thanks for pointing it out. It just might come to that, though if anyone confirms negative, I can force myself to find new and different ways to massage the image of the corrupt drive...
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Can you also try the trial version of In Design (I think it has a 30 day limit, unfortunately I have used mine up)
...or you could crack-it on lomalka.ru site ;-)
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I'm grabbing you file now - I'll let you know in a couple of minutes if I can open it.
Andy K
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Okay, to cap this all off, wow was that a pleasant surprise. Gave in and got the trial, shot in the dark... and lo, that file that repeats the alphabet over and over again (hey, look in a hex editor) is valid, with all the work in place, and most of it embedded -- impressive, considering every time I'd seen it prior, the file reported as 4k...
As to cracking, I'm not particularly enthused by the idea of screwing around with a founding member of the BSA, myself -- especially with the 'Free' alternatives available -- and I figure that wouldn't exactly send the best message to the student here; considering the school isn't teaching 'workflow' and is barely conveying (as I get to hear it, anyway) technique, I think the only thing it can teach is to demonstrate how unsustainable the whole ball of wax is.
I could go on and on about that, but hey... breakfast beer toast to X-Ray, and much obliged to everyone else, including whoever's been downloading the whole thing as I type this. :pint: If you haven't heard, at least part of the moral is apparently to keep FAT-formatted USB widgets (or quite possibly hotpluggable anything) away from OS X pre-10.3.9.
Edit: Okay, taking the server down now, before I waste anyone else's time. :-D
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Glad you got it sorted. I don't need to tell you that it's fine - though you could have shaved off 10 meg by zipping it up :-)
All the best
Andy K
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Glad you managed to salvage the data. Sorry I didn't help, I downloaded your file, but ended up having to go to my singing lesson ( :lol: sounds pretty lame, but it's true. I'm a musician :-P) before I could check it with InDesign. By the time I got back, you'd sorted it out. Anyway, good to see you got it. :-)
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@ Floid
Glad I could make a useful suggestion, and thanks for the breakfast beer :-)