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Well, when my mother gave me back my half-finished chapter 9 of Spirit walker, what I got back was corrupted.

As such, I'll be getting back to work on that, and I'll be starting over.

Ummm...yay.

I finish my midterm crap on Friday, and I'll get back to work on the story then.

All I have left is a 5 min powerpoint presentation and a 10 page paper, so nothing terribly huge.

If she sent you the file, is the file on her side also corrupted, or only the file she sent?

Or did you get the whole computer back?

Did you try opeining it with Notepad or another text editor. I know you probably had it originally in doc format or something, but often, if you didn't change fonts etc you can still make out the text of the document. Depending on the uniqueness of the document as to if you can salvage the text. It is still easier usually just to recreate it, but it is possible if it's still in good enough condition. Also look for shadow copies of the file, if you have the computer. Often MS Word will make shadow copies of a document that can then be retrieved if the original is corrupted. I've never personally used the feature and usually shut it off, but I think it's sometimes standard set to make the shadow copy. Just think shadow walker is saved by a shadow copy...

The "strings" program on a unix/linux computer will pull out just the raw text in any file. If there is any remaining text left in the corrupted file it would be able filter for it. If you dont know someone with such a system you could email me the file to see if there is anything left to salvage.

Fel wrote:Well, when my mother gave me back my half-finished chapter 9 of Spirit walker, what I got back was corrupted.
As such, I'll be getting back to work on that, and I'll be starting over.

You realise that you have a lot of 'distributed computing' potential at your disposal here Fel?

I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to help unscramble 1/10th (say) of the corrupted file if sent to them in txt format.

ANTIcarrot wrote:

Fel wrote:Well, when my mother gave me back my half-finished chapter 9 of Spirit walker, what I got back was corrupted.
As such, I'll be getting back to work on that, and I'll be starting over.

You realise that you have a lot of 'distributed computing' potential at your disposal here Fel?

I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to help unscramble 1/10th (say) of the corrupted file if sent to them in txt format.

yeah , ill put my hand up right now!

dellstart wrote:

ANTIcarrot wrote:

Fel wrote:Well, when my mother gave me back my half-finished chapter 9 of Spirit walker, what I got back was corrupted.
As such, I'll be getting back to work on that, and I'll be starting over.

You realise that you have a lot of 'distributed computing' potential at your disposal here Fel?

I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to help unscramble 1/10th (say) of the corrupted file if sent to them in txt format.

yeah , ill put my hand up right now!

same here I put my hand up to reconstruct your work

lapland wrote:Did you try opeining it with Notepad or another text editor. I know you probably had it originally in doc format or something, but often, if you didn't change fonts etc you can still make out the text of the document. Depending on the uniqueness of the document as to if you can salvage the text. It is still easier usually just to recreate it, but it is possible if it's still in good enough condition. Also look for shadow copies of the file, if you have the computer. Often MS Word will make shadow copies of a document that can then be retrieved if the original is corrupted. I've never personally used the feature and usually shut it off, but I think it's sometimes standard set to make the shadow copy. Just think shadow walker is saved by a shadow copy...

This mostly worked.

I had a friend of mine IRL who is pretty good with software recover 7 pages of the chapter, so I won't be starting from scratch.

But I still won't be starting on this til after I write that paper for history.

any updates yet please

I'm on page 15ish, and I'll have time to work on it tomorrow. I dunno if I'll finish it, but there's your update.

Fel wrote:I'm on page 15ish, and I'll have time to work on it tomorrow. I dunno if I'll finish it, but there's your update.

heck for all I care, you could do the dragon story fully before Spirit walker (and maybe some more Jason too..)

Thanks for the update Fel, hope the history paper went well. How much more time do you have before you are done with school?

fel,
glad to see that things are settling down for you now, and i look forward to whenever you release another chapter.

in the meantime,
a song of freedom and captivity -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxoy3ImIGtM (dr who music -- the theme of the Ood)


Andrew

michaelsuave wrote:Thanks for the update Fel, hope the history paper went well. How much more time do you have before you are done with school?

I'll find out on Monday what I scored on it.

It took me a while to research, but only about 3 hours to actually write.

Preparation makes that easy.