Lion thinks docx file is an alias -- it's not.

In the past week (since 10.7.1), Mac users at my office have occasionally run into a bug where files on a Windows smb share have an orange label and are seen as broken aliases, and so cannot be opened. The files were created and edited on Macs. Copying the file to the Mac HD does not fix the issue. I've only personally observed this with a .docx file, though users cannot remember if other file types were affected earlier this week. The files open normally on Windows machines, but editing and re-saving under a new name in Office 2010 does not fix the issue. Any ideas on how to make OS X see it as a regular file again?

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that the error occurred when you uploaded documents to SharePoint using drag/drop feature in chrome.
Per my knowledge, we can upload office documents such as word, excel which are empty to SharePoint. But if we upload empty txt files to SharePoint, the error will occur.
Did you try to upload txt files to SharePoint?
Before you upload the files, I recommend to check the size of the files.
I also recommend to check the ULS log located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS to see if anything unexpected occurred.
Best regards.
Victoria
Victoria Xia
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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.
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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)
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3.4 Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/ also support to load Word document files.
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5. If all above methods does not work, then you may try third-party tools such as DataNumen Word Repair at
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I'm a total idiot! How did I overlook http://www.zamzar.com/ functions? I think I might have mistakenly chosen convert to BMP instead of html. I tried it and the result was very good.
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