[Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help

[Chung, Hedahne]

Lee,

I have had the very same situation happen to me as well. <sigh>
I hate to say this, but there may be no way to retrieve the Visio file once
it is corrupted to that extent (ie: the "error (100)" message). It also may
not be the file but visio itself that is crashing, so my suggestion is that
you reinstall visio before opening anything else in the program. I say this
because I was finding myself with multiple files suddenly going corrupt
after I attempted opening them (needless to say, a total IA nightmare).
After I did that, the corrupting stopped happening. 


Hope this helps, 

Hedahne

-----Original Message-----
From: lee.r.sachs at verizon.com [mailto:lee.r.sachs at verizon.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:51 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help


Gang -

I have a file in Visio 2K on a Win2K PC which I'm unable to open.  I
believe it may have gotten corrupted due to a system crash.  I d-loaded an
.exe from MS's site that is supposed to **prevent** but not recover this
situation.  When I try to open in Visio, I get the following message:

"error (100) occurred during the action Open File.  Visio cannot open the
file because it's not a Visio file."

Even though I backup often, there's no recent copy of this file that has
the desired changes.  In all my years of development, I've never lost a
file so thoroughly.  Any advice/support would be welcome.  Thanks.

-lee

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