Corrupt hard drive due to word document

Brand new Mac Book Pro, Lion just crashed while writing a MS Word letter with photos added. First the Auto save started having problems, then my computer reported that the disc was full. Then MS Word spun in place and froze and then the Disk Utility went beserk when I tried to repair the computer. I had to restore the system but luckily it did allow me to Clone Back Up before it totally crashed. Not fun! There is a problem.

This is a long-lasting and severe problem which has been discussed extensively in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3504333?start=150&tstart=0
which is up to 178 messages. The basic problem is that when you have:
A large Word document
AND are running Time Machine, i.e. it is turned on even if not active;
THEN
Use of MS Word can corrupt your file system in various ways. I believe this is still true under OS 10.8.2 and I assume under 10.8.3. The corruption is quite serious - quite often Disk Utility refuses to repair the disk and tells you to reinstall everything, as happened to you.
I switched to Nissus Writer Pro instead of Word. Many people instead turn off Time Machine when working on a Word document. I recently tried to get away with working on a small Word document, but I got "caught."
Other factors appear to make the problem more likely: Using an SSD; having Word Auto Save turned on. But these are not necessary conditions. Good luck to us all. Maybe most of the world avoids large Word files?

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There is an even easier method with no Terminal magic required. In the Finder, select all the files you want the names of, press Command-C, switch to Word and press Command-V. Poof, your done.
If you view the DVD in List VIew, you can expand the folders you want the files for, then select all the files (and their folders if you want them too) and then do the Copy/Paste thing.
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Corrupt hard drive due to sims 3

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I had to replace the corrupted hard drive in my macbook pro recently, and after I did so I did a full factory software & application restore. I had to rebuild my iTunes Library by dragging my music folders in my iTunes Media into the iTunes Application and rebuild my playlists manually. After plugging my iPhone 5 into the computer USB, it immediately recognized my iPhone 5, showing: last backups, space left on my iPhone & all options available. I then checked the box to manually manage music etc. The problem I am now having is that when I actually try to drag music from my iTunes to my phone a prompt comes up saying that my iPhone is not an authorized device. What should I do? Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated!!

jrmetzger,
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My itunes library was on my PC. About two years ago I switched it to my Seagate server/hardrive. (itunes-preferences-advanced-change library). Last summer (2012) I bought a macbook, which seems to access the seagate server hard drive fine for word docs,

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u can give try to using external enclosre and backup ur files. I hope u will get files back. or using external enclosre with ur hdd boot into Linux and try to mount ur harddisk.
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My macbook pro hard drive went bad and i bought a new one and installed it. Now i have the old corrupted hard drive in my hand and i am looking to recover my files from it, any suggestions please? too bad i never backed them up.

My macbook pro hard drive went bad and i bought a new one and installed it. Now i have the old corrupted hard drive in my hand and i am looking to recover my files from it, any suggestions please? too bad i never backed them up.

After you have installed the OSX on the new HDD in your MBP, install the old HDD in an enclosure and connect it to your MBP via USB. Then try to drag and drop your data to the new HDD.
If this proves unsuccessful, you may look for data recovery software on the Internet. There will be free trails to see if it will work or not. If the trial suggests that it will work, then you will have to purchase the software.
The last resort is a professional data recovery service that will offer NO guarantees and charge a lot of money.
As you now can appreciate, backups eliminate such predicaments.
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I have to replace a corrupted hard-drive so what do I need to do to uninstall the creative Suite CS^ so that I can re-install onto the neww ssd hard-drive that I am upgrading to???

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I have just finished restoring my nephew's iBook which had had a major disk corruption issue - keys out of order, invalid key lengths, etc. in the catalog. While the iBook would boot, it had a lot of problems running due to the corrupt file system.
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Corrupt hard drive due to word document

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