Posted on 10/11/2009 9:14:27 PM PDT by rudy45
My wife was working on a PowerPoint 2002 presentation on her Sony Vaio laptop, using Vista home. She saved the file, then kept working on it. Then, PowerPoint suddenly ended/crashed. When she restarted PowerPoint and attempted to reopon the file, she got the message that the file caused a serious error, and did she want to open it? She answered yes, and PowerPoint simply hung up while trying to open the file.
Since that time, I have tried creating a new presentation and inserting slides from the other one, but that method didn't succeed. I also have tried simply double clicking on the file, rather than opening it using PowerPoint. My latest attempt was to open the file using OpenOffice Impress. In that case, I was able to recover a couple of slides and text.
Does anyone have additional suggestions? Thanks.
Make a copy of the file before you try anything else. When trying to recover the file you might make destroy it.
Yes make a copy. Then see if you can access the slides in reverse order of how they were worked on and try removing them one by one. You might have added a corrupt file to the project. Most likely the last one that was added or worked on.
this is the best advice. copy and save.
I usually try opening the copied file since I don’t care about.
Now right click on it and try to open in a web browser.
That usually works and then I save the file
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Don’t know why but when I use other programs it is not looking some thing as a requirement to continue.
Kind of like opening a password protected Word file and using open source or wordperfect.
BTW, did she pass protect and forget the password?
You can try this .. http://www.piriform.com/recuva
You have obviously offended God in some serious manner. Have you tried Confession, fasting, Holy Water?
Sorry. The devil made me do it.
Also, you might try opening the document in Apple’s native Office program, whatever that is.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Use OpenOffice going forward.
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