Hi Rene, Open the document and press (in sequence) Escape F l k (where the l is a lower-case L).
Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi All, > > We've got an odd problem with an FM file (v 7.2b128 Win). When the doc > was released, the writer used the (timesaving and fabulously thorough) > Archive plugin to archive the project files and then used WinZip to create > a .zip archive (unencrypted) of the files. Shortly thereafter, the > original files were purged and only the .zip of the archived files > remains. > > Today, we had to access the FM files from that zipped archive, and > everything restored in workable fashion, except for one chapter file, > which is now opening as view only, no matter what we do. We checked attrib > and it's not set to read-only. It's like it was locked for editing when > the archive was created, but we don't know for sure; that's just the only > explanation I can imagine for how we could find ourselves in this spot, > based on my experience with having opened files while they're locked by > another user. The Archive plugin didn't give an error or note as much in > the log, though, so that may not be the reason at all. > > Regardless, we're in the rather untenable position of having to find a > way to get an editable version of an FM file from the view-only version of > it, with no record of a .lck file for it and no other version of the FM > file available. The view-only version has conditional text hidden that we > now need to show in the new version, so although I have been able to > convert the view-only file to TXT, all the hidden text was omitted from > the TXT version. > > I did try to dig through the archives, but...I'm coming up empty-handed. > Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. > > Thanks, > Rene Stephenson
