More computer fun... (not!)
Aug. 7th, 2008 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI am smitten by the subtle ways in which Windows Vista encourages me to pursue more ergonomic work habits by doing things like insisting - no matter what settings I try - to suddenly display directories with names four across instead of my clearly inferior preference for a list with all details, such as size, date modified, and so on.
And then there is Word 2007's recent trend of making sure I don't spend too much time on any one task - like, say, translating - by corrupting the file I'm working on.
Fortunately, Wordfast just about paid for itself today by recovering 58% of a 10,400-word file in about 15 minutes, which made me very happy. The subject matter makes me so not want to retranslate it from scratch.
After translating some more material, it occurred to me that I hadn't checked to make sure the reconstituted file is readable. So, I saved the file, did a save-as to another name, swallowed hard, and closed Word.
I'll apparently have to use the Wordfast trick again, because somewhere along the line, Word 2007 is saving a version of the file that it cannot reread.
(FWIW, the "Open and Repair" option does not work, and the "Recover Text from Any File" option recovers only the text from the file I'm working on, dumping whatever is left of the formatting into the Great Bit Bucket™.)
I am beside myself. I think I'll go downstairs and walk around - maybe play some Gears of War - and figure out how to deal with this.
Cheers...
And then there is Word 2007's recent trend of making sure I don't spend too much time on any one task - like, say, translating - by corrupting the file I'm working on.
Fortunately, Wordfast just about paid for itself today by recovering 58% of a 10,400-word file in about 15 minutes, which made me very happy. The subject matter makes me so not want to retranslate it from scratch.
After translating some more material, it occurred to me that I hadn't checked to make sure the reconstituted file is readable. So, I saved the file, did a save-as to another name, swallowed hard, and closed Word.
I'll apparently have to use the Wordfast trick again, because somewhere along the line, Word 2007 is saving a version of the file that it cannot reread.
(FWIW, the "Open and Repair" option does not work, and the "Recover Text from Any File" option recovers only the text from the file I'm working on, dumping whatever is left of the formatting into the Great Bit Bucket™.)
I am beside myself. I think I'll go downstairs and walk around - maybe play some Gears of War - and figure out how to deal with this.
Cheers...
