[Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help

[Anthony Hempell]

This has happened to me so often that I diligenly back up my Visio files 
by doing a 'save as', adding a number to the filename and keeping an 
archive of my old files just in case.

Visio seems to have a problem during system or application crashes, and 
it's usually a foregone conclusion that the file will be corrupt on 
restart.

Backup, backup, backup... 

Anthony

> 
> 
> 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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