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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: jonbyk on December 10, 2003, 02:53:38 AM
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When I try to open a FinalWriter doc file,this is what comes up. I have ten years worth of this. Is there anything I can to to retreive these FinalWriter docs?
Jon Byk
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When I try to open a FinalWriter doc file,this is what comes up. I have ten years worth of this. Is there anything I can to to retreive these FinalWriter docs?
Hmm.... Yep. That looks like a FinalWriter file allright.... (Notice the "FORM ,&SW", looks like an Amiga IFF style header for a SoftWorks file.)
I don't understand your question, though.
You should be able to just load FinalWriter, and then choose "File > Open" and pick the doc. Am I missing something here? Are you trying to export the files out, or what's the problem?
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
It's weird. In Final Writer, when I
normally open any Final Writer doc, I get the kind of giberish which I copied on my post.
If I create a new doc and save it then open the saved doc, Final Writer brings up the doc just as I saved it.
I have some old FW docs, not on the FW partition on my HD, which when opened from the FW application on my HD, come up in the expected way - no problem.
My problem is that I cannot access, reproduce, or print and of the hundreds of letters etc. which I've save over the years.
Any suggestions as to how I can change these FW docs so that they open in the normal fashion would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon Byk
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Do you recall when this problem first appeared? I have every version of Final Writer, including its predecessor Final Copy, and all documents load up fine. It seems that all the files in that particular drawer got corrupted some how.
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At Aminet there is a program called 'Next 3.6'. with this program you can read your Final Writer File correctly and you could save it in plain text.
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Hmm... So the files are opening badly when opened INTO Final Writer. Bummer.
Were these files altered in any way? FTP'd? Put through a UNIX/DOS text conversion? Stored on, or touched by a Macintosh?
The reason I ask is that in the splattering of characters at the top of the file, there seem to be a few characters showing up in front of the "FORM" key. My Final Writer files don't seem to have that. They lead right off with the "FORM" as the first 4 characters.
I wonder if that is what is confusing Final Writer and causing it to try to open them as text files, instead of Final Writer format files.
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God know what corrupted or whatever my FW files.
My computer was freezing/crashing and I thought
that I could have a faulty PSU, so I ordered one
from Elbox. When I installed it, there was a puff
and a pop and I had to replace 2 fuses and a chip.
The PSU was wired wrong and the voltages were
incorrect, but I don't see how that would have affected
FW.
I have been trying Next3.6 to no avail.
any other ideas?
Thanks,
Jon Byk
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Yeah, hardware shouldn't affect Final Writer.
I have to admit that I am at a loss as to what happened to your files.
Do you have any backed-up files from before the corruption occurred? Even if you only have an extra copy of one of your files saved in another place, you could take it and run a diff against the corrupted version and see which bytes get altered. Maybe that would give a hint as to why the files are now behaving badly.
The other guess may be that something more on the Amiga was damaged than was obvious... Something is adding/trashing some data on the read.