Chris
A 'little' challenge: a colleague has a somewhat broken/corrupted .doc file and tries to restore it. Currently it opens but giving only between 2-10 lines per page, with unsupported character encoding. Is there anything I could try on my #linux machine with some tools to perhaps restore that file? I know its very vague, it all is. Even the Word version being used to create the file is unknown 🤷‍♂️
No backups or anything available of course 🤦‍♂️
Oct 27, 2022 at 10:08amWeb
Show threadPerpetuaλ β 🇺🇦 Oct 27, 2022
@toxision https://www.aiseesoft.com/how-to/recover-corrupted-word-file.html perhaps?
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Show threadChrisOct 27, 2022
@kf
I've forwarded the link to the person. He will give it a try. Thank you 🙏
Show threadexpatNov 3, 2022
@toxision I would try #antiword first, and if things get despirate I would use the “strings file.doc”, which will simply extract all printable characters from a binary file of any kind.
Show threadChrisNov 4, 2022
@expat
I will try that, once I get my hands on the file. Thanks for the suggestion 🙏