[Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help

[Anne Hjortshoj]

I also had a similar situation not so long ago, at 2am on a major project.
Big nightmare. I later figured out that Visio chokes on large files, and
tends to just corrupt them at random. I got the same error you did when I
tried to open the file. 

The best way to prevent this situation is to limit files to 10 pages or
so, and to use a source control app to back up your files/track
incremental changes. Not helpful to you right now, of course. 

You have my sympathy,

-Anne

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Chung, Hedahne wrote:

> 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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