Help me, flist, you are my only hope

[oloriel]

Ok.

So let's assume I have written a short story. No, it is not important, it is only fanfic for the SWG birthday bash, so it matters only to me and perhaps five other people. But.

My computer has apparently completely eaten it. Not as in, "I can't find it," but as in, "I can find it but can't open it, because my computer has decided that it is encoded funnily and when I ask it to decode and open it, all I get is three pages of ##############. Oh, the last footnote is actually legible. Hurrah.

As I don't think I have the heart to re-write the entire bloody story, even if it was cute and fluffy and even though it was only three pages... do any of you have any awesome tricks re: salvaging files ruined by computer? If you do, give them to me.

Otherwise I am going to break down and cry, I am serious, because this appears to be melodramatic emo Lyra summer or something of the sort AND I DO NOT WANT DAMMIT.

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In less desperate news, I took the cats to the vet today. Nothing bad, just their annual vaccinations. They, of course, considered that extremely bad. 'náro in fact found it so bad that he -- busted his transport box and walked around in the car. Have you ever tried to drive a car while a cat was inspecting the back seat, the trunk, the leg room, finally sitting down half-way across the hand brake and my the driver's right leg? Well, I have. It works, but only just. >_>

Comments

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I have any awesome techniques, but if you put the file up somewhere, I could at least give it a shot.
Probably can't, though.

[eruannath.livejournal.com]

Is this a word document? Have you tried opening it with another word processor? Maybe you could save it as .rtf or .txt and then opening with wordpad.

[independence1776]

I'm sorry; I wish I did. :( I really hope you can recover it somehow!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the first thing I tried... didn't help, unfortunately. Document seems fried whatever way I look at it. Thank you for trying to help, though.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I've had two people try without success... if you're still willing to give it another shot, I guess I could e-mail it to you? Though by now I'm pretty much resigned to rewriting it anyway. >_>

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Sure, mail it on. I have the same username on gmail.

[eruannath.livejournal.com]

:C
I'm sorry...