RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION]

["Matthew Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

We're going to try Thursday and Friday backups to see if enough of it was saved. I'm fairly certain the problem occurred when she saved the file friday. I'm guessing she shut down the computer before it finished synchronizing. None of the repair tools (including the one posted here) worked, and I don't know enough about playing with individual bits to have much chance saving the file bitwise hacking it. 

Her teacher seems to be understanding about it though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Engelbrecht [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:57 PM
> To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] 
> 
> 
> There is a girl that came to me about this,
> There is some word to plain text converter out there
> if that is what it is.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jason McIntosh wrote:
> 
> > I took a look, and it's giberish to me.  It almost looks like it was
> > bit changed.  i.e. everything is off by a set bitsize.  So you could
> > run a decryption algorithm to get the original text.  Could also be
> > something like a language change or even a version difference issue.
> > This is why backup's to multiple locations, verification, 
> etc. are good
> > ideas.
> > Jason
> >
> > On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 01:17 PM, <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- "Matthew W. Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > >>> Have the student send you another copy?
> > >>
> > >> This is their copy. It was in their network share, and 
> the backup of
> > >> this
> > >> file has the same corruption. I got a call from her 
> teacher asking if
> > >> I
> > >> could recover it, its not my student.
> > >>
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> > > Heh, the internet ate my homework, random generator and a 
> couple of
> > > well place
> > > test phrases :)
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