Corrupt document?

Hi, this is my first time posting here. This is for Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.1.1 with Windows XP.
I've never had a problem inserting one document into another, until today. I'm getting the message, "Object label badly formatted."
I tried saving it as another document, and get the message "The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (109)." However, there is no problem opening and reviewing the document.
I'm suspecting the document is somehow corrupted, since the software from which it was generated has acknowledged a glitch in its software which caused the document to stop printing to the PDF at page 250. Unfortunately, the document can't be regenerated with the same results, as the database has changed.
If anyone knows of a fix for this I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
If the pdf file is really corrupt, I think you can try a utility called Advanced PDF Repair to repair your PDF file. It works rather well for my corrupt PDF files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
Hope this helps.
Alan

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Issue with corrupted document, need Help !

Dear all,
In our company we use daily Indesign 7.5 (cs 5.5 package) and when we export the .ind document to .pdf the system crash.
Above this the original document (.ind) is corrupted and we're not able to open thedocument.
We loosed a lot of work and we're not able to restore de document.
When we try to open the corrupted document this message appear :
Can somebody help me?
Thx and have a nice day.

Thank you, yes, we at Markzware can try to help with your corrupt InDesign documents, for sure.
From as far as we can see when dealing with the odd corrupt InDesign file from time to time, is that it comes down to three main reasons why these InDesign documents have issues:
Font(s)
Image(s)
PowerOutage or Forced Stopped
Fonts can indeed be a corrupt font itself, but also corrupt, over-loaded or otherwise odd-balled font caches. Here is a video on how to clear font caches in InDesign and although for a Mac in this video, I think you'll get the idea on how to do that on a PC as well:
One highly corrupted image can ruin the show for your entire file. Check all images individually till you find the bad one and remove that. Also, more times then I can count, InDesign users drag-and-drop images from a web browser while visiting a web page, right into an InDesign layout. That is a big no-no. Not saying your are doing that, but just covering what can happen in the images category and a bad InDesign file.
As for the odd power outage, well that is something maybe Tesla could have helped us with, but until a time when we are not dependant on AC/DC currents, it will remain a sore point. Power in your cases is likely not the issue though.
Always report issues like these to Adobe though. They can also often help and if not right away, at least they may gather important details to help stop that type of corruption in the future.
If all else fails and as mentioned, we as Markzware can help try and fix your files - Bad InDesign or Quark File Recovery Service
Friendly Regards,
David
Markzware

Corrupt document gets created in document library with document template using createlistitem workflowaction in visual studio workflow for office 365 solution

Hi,
My requirement is to create a document library associated to a custom content type with a document template associated. Also I need to create a document based on the template in this document library when a new item is created in another list by taking the
reference ID of that new Item , I need to create the document with the name appended by ID. I need to do all this deployment using WSP.
I have created document library with document template associated to content type by following instructions in below stated blog :http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chaks/archive/2011/05/19/deploying-a-document-template-file-in-content-type-in-a-office365-sandboxed-solution.aspx
This works perfect for me.
However, there are few observations, when going to Document Library > Library Settings > Advanced Settings > Document Template section - doesnt shows the Edit template link. When tried to look at the value for the document template using view source
, it is giving me /Lists/MyDocsListInstance/Forms/template.dotx instead of the actual template file uploaded.
Ignoring the above observation, when I am trying to create a sandbox based workflow in visual studio to create document in document library when new item is created in another list, I provide the ContentTypeID as the ID associated with the document library
with template.
It creates the corrupt document at end of workflow.
I have tried using .docx instead of .dotx files for workflow as per solution provided in some of the post but it isnt resolving my issue.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Krutika

OK, I am going to throw out a lot of ideas here so hopefully they get you closer to a diagnosis. Hang on :)
Does it happen to work for some users but not others? If so, try logging in on the "good" computer with the "bad" username. This will tell you if the problem is related to the end-user's system. Also, once the user downloads a document
successfully can they open and work on it in Word? Also, does the document library have any custom content types associated with it or does it just use 'Document'?
I notice that there are other folks on the web that have run into this same problem and the similarity seems to be that they are either on SharePoint 2007 or have upgraded from 2007. Did this doc library start out as a 2007 library?
What you might want to do is this: Make a site collection from scratch in 2013 (or find one that you know was created in 2013). Choose team site (or whatever you want) for the root web and set up the security the same way you have it on the malfunctioning
library. Now, use windows explorer to copy and paste some of the documents to the new location. Be sure you recreate any needed content types. Now test it from the troubled user's computer.
I'm thinking there may be something that is different about the library since it was migrated through various versions and updates since 2007. I've sometimes found that there can be problems (especially with user profiles but that's a different story) with
things that go through this evolution.

InDesign - Hidden Characters Corrupting Documents

I post this message in the spirit of sharing information, hopefully to be of help others.
I recently encountered a problem after distilling a document from InDesign which, as an Acrobat PDF, would not print - giving three successive error messages:
1. The Document could not be printed.
2. There were no pages selected to print.
3. A drawing error occurred.
Well, that covers about everything !
After about an hour of patient diagnosis I discovered some erroneous characters had appeared in some bullet points and removal of these cured the problem.
I found them only after copying and pasting the text into Word (using the paste as "text only" option) and copying and pasting it back into InDesign. The spurious characters then appeared as a red-highlighted squares and could be easily deleted.
(Note: I had previously used the 'Show hidden characters' option in InDesign which did not reveal these little devils, neither did they 'appear' in the Word document)
I believe the erroneous character is probably a result of formatting which was in the original Word document imported into InDesign and which could be a 'flag' for bullet formatting (in Word).
The lessons I learned from this are:
patiently isolating the section of the document led to the discovery of the problem
be aware, in the future, of possible odd characters appearing (invisibly) from Word and corrupting InDesign documents.
Hope this may be of assistance.
I haven't given version numbers of my software since this is almost certainly not relevant - but the general principle is.
I hope this may be of assistance.

Thankyou for putting that on the record...

Word 2007 Corrupt Document Recovery

Hi All,
I might be a little off topic in this category but am hoping you can help or point me in the right direction, i have a corrupt .doc document, basically it was a doc i resumed working on which was launched off a usb hdd, midway through the document i accidentally unplugged the hdd.
After plugging it back in i tried to relaunch the document in the hope of just starting from where i originally resumed, however the text has now converted into all sorts of code which cannot be translated into English, i tried all the other MS docs explaining how to launch and repair the document to no avail,
Can anyone please point me in the right direction? =(
Thanks in advance.
Ovi.

Did you use MS Word's "Open and Repair" function to open those corrupted .docx files? If files are really very crucial and severely corrupted, then you have to buy a third-party application. This is the only way to recover those files as there's
no freeware, as far as I think. I have also faced the similar situation of corruption in some of Word .docx files. I tried
Word Repair Toolbox software to repair my corrupt .docx files.
You may know more at
http://www.word.repairtoolbox.com/

Corrupted document recovery of previous

Hi I have a corrupted Word 2004 document. Is it possible to recover a previously saved version although I have not used a different file name?Thanks.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I would seriously doubt that you could recover the file if it is saved with the same name without some very expensive help from a company like Drive Savers. Even then it sould be doubtful as the old file was overwritten and the information in it changed when you saved it.

My Photoshop 7 has started to corrupt documents I've worked on and I can't find out a way to stop it.

I have Photoshop 7 and have downloaded the Photoshop 7.01 download. I have a 64 bit computer and have been running and working with photoshop for about a year with no trouble. Now, It's started to corrupt files that I've manipulated in Photoshop. I start with a JPEG or PSD document and when I try to save it as a JPEG it corrupts it and I get a message indcating that when I try to open it. My objective is to insert the corrected file into a publisher document. I've been doing this same operation for quite a while but now it seems to be unworkable. I have Windows 7 home premium system.

You could also try resetting the photoshop 7 preferences.
Press and Hold the Shift+Alt+Ctrl keys just after starting the launch of photoshop 7
Keep holding the keys down until you get a dialog asking if you want to delete the photoshop settings file
Press Yes because you do.

Corrupt documents after switchover to Acrobat X Standard from Acrobat 5

At this workplace, we have had Acrobat 5 Standard copying and pasting pages from any PDF file from suppliers, Lanier printer / scanner units, AutoCAD.
We have now moved to Acrobat 10 Standard, with latest updates.
Aribitrarily people have been opening the odd existing PDF file and added some pages and saved with Acrobat 10 Standard.
On re-open we have encountered file corruption behaviour - using Acrobat 10 Standard and Acrobat 10 Viewer, we are seeing one or two thumbnails as blank.
I've tried googling for recovery tools and have worked through oh, 5 or so - in short, they are not able to do anything worthwhile - first page only or did not complete the process.
My most successful attempts are:
1. Sumatra PDF - it can see 95 out of 100 pages (the last pages are blank) which is impressive
2. FoxitPDF Reader - similar
3. PDF XChange - similar
Writing out a clean PDF of 95 pages is another task.
My Questions:
1. Why does the odd PDF corrupt? It does not happen everytime when Acrobat X Standard re-edits the existing old pdf files?
2. How can we resolve this issue?
3. What is the most effective repair utility if there is one better than the others?
Thanks
Ananda

Hi Bill,
Good idea about Save As. I myself often save versions of Excel and Word documents as I work but this workplace here doesn't do that for their PDF documents. It is a good idea, increases the files but they have enough network server space (Microsoft Servers). They enclose all kinds of pages into a one document so that they can keep track of the entity - no IT reason why they can't adopt a safer practice in the interim until this is sorted out.
The source files could come from email, scanner, AUTOCAD. However, their issue is that the single destination file was originally ok, the new incoming files are originally ok and when they insert pages into the good destination file using pages from good incoming files, they end up with pdf corruption after save and re-open.
They are not worried about backward compatibility - they now have all Adobe Acrobat Standard 10.
Will batch file conversion help in any way? That is, process all these files to Acrobat 10 level, then use Acrobat 10 normally?
How do they do batch file conversion - can they do that with Acrobat 10 Standard?
Thanks anyone for your help
Ananda

CORRUPTED DOCUMENT

Up until last week my document was was fine. This week I'm
getting a message from WORD stating that, "This document may be
corrupt; To preserve the contents choose select all from the Edit
menu, then choose Copy from the Edit menu. Create a new document
and choose Paste from the Edit menu." I tried all that and it
doesn't work. When I use Word outside of RoboHelp I have no issues.
If I copy the document and paste it outside of Robo into Word, the
issues follow it. This is a HUGE document with lots of links. I'm
wondering if my settings are messed up or something. When I click
the bullets or numbering button nothing happens. It stays depressed
for a bit but nothing shows in the document. Formatting doesn't
work either. Any ideas out there?
Thanks
Peggy

Hi Peggy
I seem to remember an old trick. Try turning on the display
of Paragraph Markers, then selecting all the contents
except the last paragraph marker before you do the
copy/paste thing. I seem to recall that there is often an issue
where the "bad" information is often stored in this location. By
eliminating it from the mix when you copy/paste, your document
"heals" itself.
I hope I remembered that correctly... Rick

Corrupt documents on iCloud

Hi everyone, I'm having huge problems with pages right now. I have being using pages frequently for uni, but now suddenly two documents won't open and apple support have told me they're corrupt.
The files were created on my iPad and I have only every accessed them from my iPad. Also, this seems to have arbitrarily only affected two documents, while every other document seems to be fine. When I try to access the same files from iCloud.com I get the same error message.
It seems that these files have been corrupted but I have no explanation as to how; I've tried backing up, restoring my iPad from previous backups, uninstalling pages etc, but no luck.
These files are absolutely vital and I really need to be able to access them; I would even be fine with an older version, but losing the whole document is absolutely unacceptable.
Has anyone had any experience with this type of problem? Or would anyone know how to somehow access these corrupt files?
Any tips would really be appreciated.

Do you use a Mac and keep a back up.
For future, you might want to back up documents on your ipad by saving them to iTunes.

Corrupted .docx file. Word 2007. Can't open the document. Tags mismatch. Help?

The Office Open XML file *.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents.
Details: The name at the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag.
Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column: 3487212
Hmm, I guess I should give some background info and what I've tried so far, right?
The document is in word 2007, Windows 7. Last night, I was in a hurry, and got a lot of things open. I was opening the document to do a few quick spontaneous revisions, but it was so laggy and I was late for an appointment, so I was feeling panicky
and frustrated. In hindsight, it probably wasn't the best option to just force shut the PC down cause word stopped responding in the middle of opening the document. Still, while I'm no Sherlock, I knew stopping it while it's in the middle of saving the document
would bebad, I didn't think stopping it while opening the document (and not really modifying the document at all, at least that was what I thought before), could have drastic consequences! The document's quite
large, a few hundred words, and about 500 or so pages. It's this really big project I was doing at work, for months now really, and because it's somewhat business confidential in nature, I can't exactly share it freely, or I would've uploaded a copy, sorry.
Anyway, I woke up this morning and opened it, and the error came up. By the way, the document was saved in a 2TB external hard with a few disk errors in the past, if that helps, even if I'm pretty much sure its not a problem with the hard. The error
came up... and yeah. I first made a copy, which I've been trying everything on, in case I do end up making things worse. I have no previous versions of it, just a relatively very old backup. Anything less than 80% recovery would set me back weeks with a wage
cut. The good news is that I was able to open the document in WordPad, managing to recover the first 287 pages (131,543 words), with no errors or data loss, and saved it in a separate file. Apparently, according to information I obtained later, MSWord tends
to not open at all when it encounters an error, but Wordpad tends to stop reading the rest of the code once it encounters an error. So, naturally, I assumed (so correct me if I'm wrong), that behind a few sentences I might lose due to the error, the rest could
also be salvageable. I then looked up the problem all over the internet. Read a microsoft article on troubleshooting/recovering corrupted documents (Open & Repair, Draft Mode, Creating Link, Recover text from any file converter, etc). No dice.
I first saw a similar question on answers.microsoft, and tried to use Tony Jollan's Rebuilder, macros enabled and all. Sadly, no luck.
I managed to make my first breakthrough when I found out that .docx was just a .zip file, and could be renamed as such, with the document.xml extracted and manually fixed using an XML editor (not that I knew how to do that, but I was desperate and
willing to learn). So, made another copy, changed extensions, and tried to specifically extract the document.xml. I believe that it is the main body text, right? That is the only thing really necessary for me, since everything I've done so far is entirely
spartan, with no fancy fonts, formatting, header/footer/notes, media objects, formulas, tables, bullet points, numbered lists, etc. All pure sans-serif text, with some Japanese Kanji thrown in. 500 pages of pure text.
I then hit a snag, when WinRAR encountered an error on extracting document.xml, stating that "CRC failed in word\document.xml. The file is corrupt". So I tried to fix this using several ZIP repair programs and stuff. Nothing worked. At
least not so far. Managed to extract an incomplete version of document.xml using WinRAR's 'Keep Broken Files' option when extracting. The extracted
document.xml came up to 3.31 MB while the original in archive is 7.53 MB. Viewed it in the Windows XML Editor which opened up the text in Internet Explorer, a jumble of text with no line breaks or paragraphs. Still, it actually extracted a few pages less than
the open-using-Wordpad method tried earlier. So trying to fix the archive again...
So I decided to give up the manual route for the meantime and focus on readymade solutions. I came across yet another microsoft article, but this one was at least more relevant than the last. It had this auto FixMe thing. I ran it, didn't
work. Apparently, as I found out later, "This fix will work for one specific tag error where there are equations and graphics in the same paragraph AND Office 2010 SP1 has not been applied."
Tried several (read: dozens) corrupt Word recovery software, from freeware to pro trials, to varying degrees of effect, although unsuccessful
in goal. Some failed to read it, saying it was too corrupted for them to handle, the best managed to recover about three-pages-worth less data compared to the Wordpad method. So yeah, anybody with a similar problem, always open it with wordpad first and recover
what you can. That doesn't mean I'm giving up though.
So here I am, tearing my hair out in frustration. Whew, I feel like I told you guys my life story. I guess worst case scenario, I report this to my boss, so I personally or from the company, I/we'll hire a team of professionals to deal with it.
But that's not an ideal scenario. It's gonna be out of my salary either way (the company has a firm policy of 'You reap what you sow'), along with a wage cut for making such an amateurish mistake even with continuous reminders to back it up every two sentences,
so I'd rather avoid that.
I'm currently looking to see whether there's a way to recover a previous version of an overwritten document somehow using a third-party software or something. (I didn't have Windows Backup enabled, so no previous version on Windows). So far, no
autosaved documents on MSWord AutoRecover, even though I have it enabled set to every 3 mins (or maybe I'm just not seeing it since I'm trying to look for it manually?). Or are the temporary files wiped on shutdown? I don't have 'Always save backup copy' option
enabled on word either.
So yeah, an auto fix, or a lengthy answer detailing what exactly I should do (from the very very basics), or a link to a site with such info, would be much appreciated. Seriously :D
Please. Thanks for at least making an effort :)

When a Word document file is corrupted, then you can try several methods to recover it:
1. First of all, you can try the recovery function integrated with Microsoft Word, as follows:
1) On the File menu, click Open.
2) In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file that you want to open.
3) In the folder list, locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4) Select the file that you want to recover.
5) Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.
You may find more information about this at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/recover-the-text-from-a-damaged-document-HP005189610.aspx (for Word 2003)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893672/en-us (for Word 2007/2010/2013)
2. If you have multiple corrupt Word documents, then you can use the VBA macro provided in article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893672/en-us so that all the files will be opened in "Open and Repair" option automatically.
3. There are also free tools from third-parties that can open and read Microsoft Word documents, for example,
3.1 OpenOffice at http://www.openoffice.org. This is a very famous open source project that is designed to support Office file formats, including Word documents. The software can run under Windows.
3.2 LibreOffice at http://www.LibreOffice.org. Another free office suite.
3.3 AbiWord at http://www.abisource.com. This is a cross-platform tool that works under Unix and Windows.
3.4 Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/ also support to load Word document files.
Sometimes when Word fails to open your document, these tools may be able to open it successfully. If that is the case, then after the document is opened, you can just save it as a new document which will be error-free.
4. For docx files, they are actually a group of files compressed in Zip file format. Therefore, sometimes, if the corruption is only caused by the Zip file, then you can use Zip repair tools such as WinRAR at
http://www.rarlab.com to repair the file, as follows:
4.1 Assuming the corrupt document is a.docx, then you need to rename it to a.zip
4.2 Start WinRAR, go to "Tools > Repair Archive" to repair a.zip and generated a fixed file a_fixed.zip.
4.3 Rename a_fixed.zip back to a_fixed.doc
4.4 Using Word to open a_fixed.doc.
There may still be some warnings when opening the fixed file in Word, just let ignore it and Word will try to open and repair the fixed file. If the file can be opened successfully, then you can just save the contents into another error-free file.
5. If all above methods does not work, then you may try third-party tools such as DataNumen Word Repair at
http://www.datanumen.com/word-repair/
I have used it to repair some word documents successfully. It provides a free demo version so that you can try to see if the data you want can be recovered or not.
Good luck!

Wiping corrupt FI documents from DB

I need to get completely rid of FI documents that somehow got corrupted and could not be rebuilt via SAP-supported utilities. There is an exact list of documents that are missing one or more item records in table BSEG. The financial aspect of this problem is dealt with accordingly, but now all table entries related to these corrupt documents must be removed from the database.
I was thinking of using a simple program that deletes all corresponding entries from BKPF, RFBLG and all the index tables (such as BSID, BSIK, BSIS and a bunch more). Trouble is that the database is huge and I'm afraid the not optimal access to these index tables via the usual document number, company code, fiscal year will take forever.
Any other thoughts about the best approach? I don't think using archiving would work because there are documents where we only have headers but no items, but index entries might still point to some non-existing items... a mess.
What other implications do I have to consider if I do the deletion like this?
Thanks for all ideas.

Hi Tamas,
Just a thought here.....
Fine you dont want to use archiving, as you feel there maybe some missing links. But the deletion program of the FI_DOCUMNT can definately give you the details of which tables are being accessed to delete the data for FI docs. Based on that you can come out with your own program perhaps?
PS: You might have to take hint from the program which deletes secondary indices (BSIS, BSAS, BSAD....) also.
Hope this helps,
Naveen

The Create List Item workflow action does not work in document library with document template

My end goal is more complex but below is a basic example of the issue I’m having that just simply does not work.
I'm trying to use a site workflow to create an item in a document library that has a document template applied to it but the file that gets created by the workflow is corrupt and cannot be opened.
I created a document library and edited the document template by adding some text to the header and changing it to a Word docx file instead of a Word dotx file. I tested the document template by clicking the files tab in the ribbon and then clicking new
document which opens the document template in Word and allows me to edit and save the document back to SharePoint. Then I created a SharePoint 2013 site workflow in SharePoint Designer that contains a single Create List Item action, and that action creates
an item in the document library with the name field statically defined. I published the workflow and then manually start it on the site. The workflow completes successfully and when I navigate to the document library the document has been created by the workflow.
When I click on the document to open it in the Word Web App it throws the error pictured below and if I open it in the Word client application it just opens a blank document and not the correct document template.
I also tried using a SharePoint 2010 workflow with pretty much the same results. Opening the document in Word Web App gives the same error as above and opening the document in the Word client application gives the error pictured below.
Come on Microsoft creating a Word Document in a SharePoint Document Library from a SharePoint Workflow should just work! Is this a bug or does anyone have any ideas on what is causing the this issue?

I had the same problem with corrupted document - this worked for me:
1. Create a 2010 Workflow which creates the list element in a document library
(you may start this workflow from your 2013 workflow if applicable)
2. In the Create New List Item properties - make sure to set ContentTypeId to your content type
("Id for indholdstype" is Danish for "Contenttype ID")
3. Your Content Type template should be a ".docx" file - NOT a ".dotx" file...!
(I have always created my templates for content types as .dotx files - seems Microsoft wants us to use ordinary .docx files as template files for content types)
Hope this helps you!

Can't open Pages 09 document

Like many others on this post, I also cannot open a very important Pages 09 document built using mainly blank pages and a couple of standard Page Layout Templates.
It is 80 pages of colour photos with captions, totalling 1.7 GB. I saved everything successfully and kept it on my EHD, but now I can't open it, even when copied back to my laptop. The message simply says it can't be opened, with no indication why.
If I used too much capacity, why does the system not warn me?
I can see the document through the ".pages Info" Preview thumbnail section, and can click through each page. However, although the document is set to "Open with: Pages.app" when I double-click on the preview, I get the same "can't open" message.
Can anyone help please?

Sounds as a corrupted file.
Two tracks:
(1) if the document is stored as a flatfile,
rename it as xxx.pages.zip.
Double click to expand.
You will get a package entitled xxx.pages
Like with every package, control + click to get "Show Package Contents"
You will get a window showing
a folder named Contents
a file named index.xml (or index.xml.gz if the doc was stored as a package)
the files corresponding embedded pictures
a folder named QuickLook
In this one you will get a file entitle Preview.pdf
Open it with Preview.
I assume that you will be able to copy the text contents and paste it in a new sane Pages document.
With the displayed pdf, it will be quite easy to rebuild the original
(2) attach the doc to a mail
send them to my mailbox.
I will do the surgery for you and will send the document to Apple Bugs Hunters to give them a new example of corrupted document to help them to find what is wrong in the program.
Click my blue name to get my address.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 5 août 2009 22:10:35)

Pages 3.0 crashes opening a long document

Hi there,
I am running Pages 3.0 (with all current updates) on an iMac with Os 10.5.7 and 2 Gb of RAM. I have a very long document (almost 200 pages) with pictures and tables that worked fine until yesterday.
I usually make a backup copy of the file every evening just to be sure, however...... it seems that it's not enough!!
This morning a double click on the document leads to a Pages 3.0 crash. The application launches, a dialog box indicating a progress bar appears ("Opening") and then Pages quits.
The same happens if I try to open the backup copy! I am stuck and I can't access the file!!!!!!!!!
Disk utility says the the hard disk is OK (and so are the privileges).
What can I do?? I can't even export the file in Word as it crashes before I can convert him. By the way, the same happens on another Mac: it really seems that the document is now corrupted (without doing anything special...).
The funny thing, is that Quicklook works just fine: if I hit the space bar from the Finder, I can see the content perfectly.
What is going on???
Thanks for your help!
Leonardo

Leonardo Biondi wrote:
Hi there,
I am running Pages 3.0 (with all current updates) on an iMac with Os 10.5.7 and 2 Gb of RAM. I have a very long document (almost 200 pages) with pictures and tables that worked fine until yesterday.
I usually make a backup copy of the file every evening just to be sure, however...... it seems that it's not enough!!
This morning a double click on the document leads to a Pages 3.0 crash. The application launches, a dialog box indicating a progress bar appears ("Opening") and then Pages quits.
The same happens if I try to open the backup copy! I am stuck and I can't access the file!!!!!!!!!
Disk utility says the the hard disk is OK (and so are the privileges).
What can I do?? I can't even export the file in Word as it crashes before I can convert him. By the way, the same happens on another Mac: it really seems that the document is now corrupted (without doing anything special...).
The funny thing, is that Quicklook works just fine: if I hit the space bar from the Finder, I can see the content perfectly.
What is going on???
Simple:
The Index.xml file is no longer readable by Pages but as you saved a preview in the document this Preview.pdf file is readable.
(1) rename your doc from xx.pages to xx.pages.zip then double click.
You will get a package entitled "xx.pages"
control click it to see its contents.
In the folder Conent:Quickloock, you will get the Preview.pdf file.
(2) it would be interesting to send the document to my mail box so I would be able to add it to the set of corrupted documents which I already send to Apple Bugs Hunters to help them idntify the wrongdoers. Click my blue name to get my address.
(3) duplicating the last saved copy is good practice but it's not a true safe protocol.
If the last saved one is odd (like yours) the duplicate will be odd too.
This is why I wrote an Autosave tool which saves every ten minutes but which also keeps chronological date stamped zipped copies.
With it, if the copy saved at time X is bad, we may hope that the one saved at X-10 is OK.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 4 juillet 2009 15:54:39)

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