On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > ... a virus or some weird encoding issues ... Any ideas? > > 0. run clamav on the data file. > 1. give her ClamWin and Spybot-S&D if she lacks adequate virus/spy-tools. > 2. explain the advantages of OpenOffice/AbiWord/etc. over illicit copies > of closed-ware. > 3. copy file.doc file.txt > 4. LESSCHARSET various settings - see if anything resembling text shows up. > 5. discuss periodic snapshot backups > 6. you did check out repairmyword.com per the other reply on the list? > 8.04 alright maybe not ready for that step but this list knows what i mean > :) > 0 nothing found 1 will be her to do this asap, but right now, we'll see about cleaning her file 2 she's going to use OpenOffice 3. changing the file extension seems to do nothing 4. will try that 5. we're working towards that also... 6. yeah, and that didn't do anything. 8.04...yup, it's definitely awesome. i really dig it on my HP netbook.
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