That is a sensible precaution.
Oscar Hotel said:
If you could make a new file with no personal info in Wordpad, then back it up and restore it the same way as you did for the others, you might be able to recreate the problem.
If not, at least tell us what you used to back up and restore the files that got corrupted.
Are we all missing something here? Oscar's original post showed what he sees when Wordpad opens one of his unknown-type files:
whilst below is what Dalchina saw when he opened a .doc file (word document ?) in Wordpad:
They have the same opening bytes. So that tells me that Oscar's file is almost certainly a word .doc file, and his problem is possibly because by default it seems Wordpad will attempt to interpret a file as its native format, and thus shows 'nonsense'. But if he follows these instructions: How to Open .Doc in WordPad | Small Business - Chron.com
on one of his files, then WP should open it and properly interpret the contents as a word .doc file.
I don't have Wordpad to try it - oh, wait - I do! I never use it, but these are the first few bytes I get when I open a word .doc file: ÐÏࡱá
Simples! - so all I have to do is tell WP to open a Word doc, as per the link above - but amazingly, it seems to have lost the capability - it can open .docx and other stuff, but not .doc - at least, not on my 19041.630 (2004) build.
I shall post this, but feel sure there must be a way round it...
update: It seems that MS removed whatever support WP had for .doc files when Vista came out (source: Wikipedia), due to vulnerabilities. So Oscar has to ask himself how he came to create word .doc files, and ask us how to help. As he seems less than keen on free, Open Source, solutions, we may not be able to help. I, for one, won't be recommending any s/w made by other than MS. I don't want to upset him any further. Martin
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I saw the above when I used WordPad to open the DOC file attached below:
Please post the actual address instead of a Hot link. Thank youAre we all missing something here? Oscar's original post showed what he sees when Wordpad opens one of his unknown-type files:
whilst below is what Dalchina saw when he opened a .doc file (word document ?) in Wordpad:
They have the same opening bytes. So that tells me that Oscar's file is almost certainly a word .doc file, and his problem is possibly because by default it seems Wordpad will attempt to interpret a file as its native format, and thus shows 'nonsense'. But if he follows these instructions: How to Open .Doc in WordPad | Small Business - Chron.com
on one of his files, then WP should open it and properly interpret the contents as a word .doc file.
I don't have Wordpad to try it - oh, wait - I do! I never use it, but these are the first few bytes I get when I open a word .doc file: ÐÏࡱá
Simples! - so all I have to do is tell WP to open a Word doc, as per the link above - but amazingly, it seems to have lost the capability - it can open .docx and other stuff, but not .doc - at least, not on my 19041.630 (2004) build.
I shall post this, but feel sure there must be a way round it...
update: It seems that MS removed whatever support WP had for .doc files when Vista came out (source: Wikipedia), due to vulnerabilities. So Oscar has to ask himself how he came to create word .doc files, and ask us how to help. As he seems less than keen on free, Open Source, solutions, we may not be able to help. I, for one, won't be recommending any s/w made by other than MS. I don't want to upset him any further. Martin
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the first screen shot is of a file that won't open.
Second shot is of the same file opened on another PC. It's in the back ground.
Third shot is of the advertisement that will not release this PC until I answer it's questions.
Which I will not do because I'm not sure what it's asking or offering. So I do a forced shut down.
I think you have hit the nail on the head. As it happens I have been using an old Win95 PC to investigate problems on another thread, and Wordpad in Win95 saves as a Word 6.0 *.doc by default. Here's a document I just created in Win95 Wordpad and opened in Win10 Wordpad - it has those same tell-tale bytes....
I, for one, won't be recommending any s/w made by other than MS. I don't want to upset him any further.
There are online .doc to .docx converters that would be able to convert the document to a format that W10 Wordpad can open, but those would be equally unacceptable.
The only other way to convert would be to open the .doc in Word and save as a .docx. There are a number of ways to get Microsoft Office for free, the most convenient if you have a Microsoft account would be to use Microsoft's free web browser version.
How-To Geek | How to Get Microsoft Office for Free
The forum editor make that very difficult to do. It automatically creates the link when you type a url. Your browser will display the actual address when you hover over the link. Here's how it looks in Firefox....
...and Chromium Edge.
One way to post the actual url is to put it in a Code box.
Code:https://smallbusiness.chron.com/open-doc-wordpad-28104.html
And here's the link I gave:
Code:https://www.howtogeek.com/667717/how-to-get-microsoft-office-for-free/
Adding 'thank you' does not alter the fact that you are complaining about a link I gave to help you! You can see where it will go at the bottom of the browser window - a link like that is what you get if you insert a link via the icon to the left of the envelope on the 'toolbar'. It merely assigns a label to the link based on the web page. I usually just CTRL-V links in (and then they show the full address in the text), but this time I did not. Oh well.
In the second shot MS is asking you to sign in to Office - you must have done something to trigger this. What might that have been? As I have suggested, your docs are probably Word docs, and cannot have been created by Wordpad (AFAIK), so at some point in the past you must have used Word (or some dodgy free open-source alternative) - do you know when that was, and how it came to be so? But it would appear you don't want to sign in to Office (which might need an MS account, and I can't blame you for that), so how do you expect to use Word again? Or maybe you don't - but Wordpad isn't going to get you anywhere (on its own).
I wouldn't call that an advertisement: they are asking you to either agree or not to 'sending optional data'. If you don't like the sound of that, why not select 'No' and then continue? You seem to have a level of 'cautiousness' that is preventing you helping yourself.
There are three questions 'buried' in my reply - if you can answer those, we may be more able to help.
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