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WordPerfect help
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:34 pm
by mr skunk
I recently saved a 32 KB story I was writing. When I tried to open it up today, half of it was missing. What's strange is when I checked the document size, it still said 32 KB. I made a copy of it, and the copy says 16 KB. I know half is missing, and yet it's telling me it's still there. Anybody have any ideas?
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:52 pm
by CommanderEVE
that is weird, i'm not sure, maybe you saved it wrong. or there's some thing wrong with that file or your computer. man, that's really got me thinking. maybe ask one of the mods they know alot about computers
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:24 pm
by fafner
Are you using MACOSX ?
You must know that when a file is saved, the actual file length is stored somewhere along the name, while data are stored in a different part. If for some reason only 16 Kb were saved while the correct length was stored, you would see 32 Kb, while the real size would be 16 Kb in your case. Not sure it is very clear, but I can't make it clearer
If you know of a filesystem checker for your operating system, try to use it, it might fix the problem (or not).
Edit:
Checking a disk on MACOSX.
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:29 pm
by CommanderEVE
you are so cleaver fafner
i think you and DrFrag and jeffbert should have compertion
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:57 pm
by fafner
Sparx wrote:you are so cleaver fafner
I am not "clever", I just happen to know many things in a field where you don't know as much as me. You probably know many things about tomcats and aeronautics in general, while personnally I am completelly clueless in those fields
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:29 pm
by mr skunk
I'm just gonna type it up again. It should only take me an hour or so. I just wish I remembered some of the things I typed...
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:57 pm
by fafner
You should try to fix your filesystem nevertheless. There might be errors that causes the data loss, and it might happen again.
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:50 pm
by CommanderEVE
mr skunk wrote:I'm just gonna type it up again. It should only take me an hour or so. I just wish I remembered some of the things I typed...
what was the story about?
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:46 pm
by mr skunk
Sparx wrote:what was the story about?
It was a gift for LynnyM. As you know she's a huge fan of Kei Kisaragi, so I wrote her a story about the said character.
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:27 pm
by CommanderEVE
fafner wrote:I am not "clever", I just happen to know many things in a field where you don't know as much as me. You probably know many things about tomcats and aeronautics in general, while personnally I am completelly clueless in those fields
true, i'm smart in alot of other fields too i have a shcool record of the highest year 9 SATs in the school
mr skunk wrote:It was a gift for LynnyM. As you know she's a huge fan of Kei Kisaragi, so I wrote her a story about the said character.
cool
