I've got a corrupted file issue for a friend (some Word docs), and it's a different problem than what I'm used to and thus not easily fixed by the standard FOSS tools I use.
Usually, the medium is bad (e.g. USB drive) and I can scan it with several tools to get stuff on it (or, with my buddy's hdd a couple of months ago, dd it and then scan that dd image with my standard set of tools). In this case, however, it's a different problem. When I open up one of our Word docs, all I see is a word doc filled with jibberish letters e.g. copy-pasted from one of the hosed docs *öü**₧teA┼K¥╛¡M*lÜ/JkÖë┐Ä╘}╠ß╞ ¢é*≡*Dƒ8Ω═²5y¥z½3º*oU⌡ΦlΩ╫9u*grì.L╞'╦*ñ│8∙H5╕δ┐%₧p;½4╪ She's now in Thailand, so getting access to her computer isn't feasible, and I've already sent her a list of questions about the environment she typed her docs in and the media that were involved with transferring it. I was hoping for any advice from you guys ahead of time prior to getting some answers from her. (They're important academic papers she's been working on, so as you might imagine, she's very worried about losing them)
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