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Corrupt Word Document - Help!

  • 15-03-2012 6:52pm
    #1
    Shane732
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭


    Ok so a friend of mine has a problem with a number of corrupt word documents.

    He's getting a Word/document.xml line 2 column error.

    I'm wondering if any of you have any suggestions as to how these could be recovered?

    The documents appear to be only 4-5kb which makes me worry that there might not be anything in the files.


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Shane732 wrote: »
    Ok so a friend of mine has a problem with a number of corrupt word documents.

    He's getting a Word/document.xml line 2 column error.

    I'm wondering if any of you have any suggestions as to how these could be recovered?

    The documents appear to be only 4-5kb which makes me worry that there might not be anything in the files.

    For a docx file that size does seem quite low, you could try some suggestions here but sounds to me like much of the files data is actually missing

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  • #3
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Also, make hidden files visible, you might find a bunch of MS Word autosaves in the same folder that could be of use.


  • #4
    Shane732
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭Shane732


    Yeah I tried some of the techniques listed and also tried the demo from a professional auto recovery entity (Microsoft Certified Partner) and it says there's no data in the file.


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