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Zee	11-12-2006 22:20

Corrupt Word Document

Can someone help me open this word document? I dont know if it is corrupt or not....

When it opens it opens like 140 pages of circles, its supposed to be writing?

thanks

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nsf6so

Paul K

11-12-2006 22:25

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Erm circles here too. Where did it come from and is it in a different language?

Zee	11-12-2006 22:27

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34177308)

Erm circles here too. Where did it come from and is it in a different language?

My friend sent it and asked me to try and help him fix it... thats all i know

SnoopZ

11-12-2006 22:29

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Sounds like a windup to me. ;)

Paul K

11-12-2006 22:30

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Tell your friend that it's knackered and send it back with a few hundred more pages copied and pasted on to it

Web-Junkie

11-12-2006 23:00

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Hexedit the file, mostly filled with 'F0' and a few lines with 0 and p, no wonder it's got no readable text in it :)

I'd say whoever sent it didn't save it correctly or as SnoopZ says, it's a windup!

Zee	11-12-2006 23:12

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Its his work, he was doing it in class today, must have not saved it properly

SnoopZ

11-12-2006 23:27

Re: Corrupt Word Document

I ran it through Word 2007 and that couldn't make sense of it in any format language.

Gareth

12-12-2006 16:17

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Heh, let's just hope your friend's Word document wasn't virus infected, otherwise there'll be a fair few people on this forum who are now infected too. :D

Web-Junkie

12-12-2006 16:23

Re: Corrupt Word Document

There's nothing in the file that can possibly be a virus, not even a macro virus!

Paul K

12-12-2006 16:35

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Nah some of us scan things before opening ;)

Zee	12-12-2006 17:19

Re: Corrupt Word Document

I wouldn't post a virus on this forum though....

so no need to worry :)

Gareth

12-12-2006 23:07

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34177719)

Nah some of us scan things before opening ;)

unless it was a zero-day :erm: not that I want to panic you though ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 34177793)

I wouldn't post a virus on this forum though....

so no need to worry :)

yeah, wasn't really suggesting you would, mate... was just a joke ;)

Zee	12-12-2006 23:11

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gareth (Post 34178085)

unless it was a zero-day :erm: not that I want to panic you though ;)

yeah, wasn't really suggesting you would, mate... was just a joke ;)

yep :cool: i know :p:

markknell

12-12-2006 23:53

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 34177300)

There is no file header, this is either a joke or the file is not a word based document.

LSainsbury

13-12-2006 13:43

Re: Corrupt Word Document

Was it saved to a USB flash drive per chance?

I've seen something similar where Word hadn't finished writing the file and the USB drive was removed, although Word had closed and gave the impression it had finished writing.

This "Feature" is called Write Caching and can be changed in the policy of the hardware device - I always disable this on USB flash drives...

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