On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:34 AM, Michele Forrester wrote:
On 4/14/05 Tom Baker wrote:You might try the application CanOpener...it opens all types of things and is from Abbott Systems...you might be able to download it as a trial application and try it...It shows all the junk, etc...like you say, if the size is correct there must be SOMETHING there!Edie,
Thanks for the tips. I downloaded both those apps, and they're pretty neat, especially Text Wrangler.
But when they open those broken TextEdit docs they just show a blank page. So I guess the info is gone. I can't figure out how it happened, but I'm not going to trust TextEdit with important data anymore.
Anyway, I'll get some use out of these neat text programs you pointed me to. So some good came of this, thanks to you and the others trying to help. I appreciate it.
Michele
Michelle, yes I'm sure there's still something there, or else Get Info wouldn't show it as 32 kb. A new, empty TextEdit doc shows only a couple of kb.
The app you pointed me to, CanOpener, (I found it at http://www.abbottsystems.com/co.html) looks like a possible way to recover it, all right, and if so it would be worth the $65 they ask for it, but they don't allow any trial use, and I'm not rich enough to gamble that it would work in this case.
Of the two TextEdit docs that broke, and now refuse to open, the one that I'd really like to recover was my running collection of tips how to do things in Final Cut Express. As anyone knows who has tried that video editing program, the learning curve is steep, and I was writing down and saving every important thing I learned in that doc as I went along. Then whenever I got stuck trying to do something that I'd already figured out before, just forgot how, I could go back to this doc and look it up and remind myself how to do it. I was sort of writing my own user's manual. It was a great learning tool. And somehow it seems to have just self-destructed. TextEdit just can't open it anymore.
Thanks for the attempt to help!
Tom
-- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
