FIX! [Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help

[Gordon Montgomery]

ahhh...the list regained its humanity :)

Perhaps on behalf ot the list you [Lee] should contact MS
and let them know...they might even listen :-) there are quite
a few of us now...

thx.
g.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <lee.r.sachs at verizon.com>
To: "SIG-IA" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: FIX! [Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help


>
> Gordon & Fellow SIGIAers -
>
> Sorry for not updating all on the progress (or lack thereof w/the Visio
> file).  Here's a summary of my learnings:
>
> 1. A number of people pointed me to that link and that .exe on MS's site.
> The fix does not repair the file, alas, but only minimizes the chance of
> the same thing happening.
> 2. I got a number of sympathetic "yeah, same thing happened to me,"
> e-mails.
> 3. A developer I worked with was at least able to determine the first
> 0xBFFF (49151) bytes were gone in the file.  We did a checkdisk and found
> some orphaned files and compared a version of this file with another using
> a WinDiff app; there may be some ability to resurrect some data, but I
> needed to present something the very next day.
> 4. Using wetware, I was able to recall the important knowledge for a
> presentation the next day and drew it on a whiteboard.  Nobody complained;
> more interactive presentation, though.
> 5. I will continue to save, back-up, etc. as I was doing and be more
> vigilant with Visio
> 6. Only a few insensitive types tried to lecture me about backup
> procedures, etc. to which I reminded them, like my brother whose house was
> struck by lightening and burned to the ground, the last thing you want to
> hear after your house burns down is what you "should've done" to protect
> yourself.
>
> But thanks to everyone for their advice; only reason I didn't reply sooner
> was b/c I was busy cleaning up the file or doing my dog & pony.  And
> thanks, of course, to MSFT for buying Visio and making some mediocre
s-ware
> buggy.
>
> :-P
>
> -lee
>
>
>
> Subject:    Re: FIX!  [Sigia-l] Corrupted Visio File Help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Re: "Here's the sucker that should fix the problem:
>         http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=kb;en-us;q278261"
>
> I was just wondering:
>
> 1. Did the fix work for those who were in difficulties?
> 2. Does anybody say "thank you" any more - it's a good business skill :)
> 3. Do all mentors/teachers/helpers feel they are "casting perls before
> swine"?
>
>
>
>
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