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  • December 8, 2006 at 7:36 am #2264740

    Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

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    by portable123 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

    Are there any tools available to recover a corrupted PowerPoint file? My wife had spent about a week putting one together and (luckily) when done presenting she wanted to save it and MOVED (not copied) it to a key drive (big mistake to trust the move). When she got home the file was corrupted and she cannot open it.

    Anyone know any possibilities to recover this?

    Thanks!

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    • December 8, 2006 at 7:36 am #3287972

      Clarifications

      by portable123 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

      Clarifications

    • December 8, 2006 at 9:21 am #3287933

      Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

      by omnicef · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

      I have a program that might fix it… Do you want to send it to me?

    • December 8, 2006 at 9:31 am #3287930

      RE: Powerpoint Recovery

      by dugadugdug · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

      Assuming you are using a later version of MS Office, have you tried the Detect and Repair option found under the help menu in PP?

    • December 8, 2006 at 7:40 pm #3287776

      Odd thought

      by tig2 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Corrupt PowerPoint File Recovery

      I have managed this by viewing the corrupt file through PPT viewer. On “Save”, I lose some formatting but can generally retain data.

      Also, try to recover the original file. Perhaps a slightly earlier version?

      Good Luck!

      • December 10, 2006 at 4:07 pm #3273950

        Great thought

        by portable123 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

        In reply to Odd thought

        Sounded good, but apparently this file is totally trashed. I downloaded the latest viewer, installed, and tried to open, but no go. Thanks for the thought!

        • December 10, 2006 at 7:15 pm #3273909

          Another odd thought

          by tig2 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

          In reply to Great thought

          Open Office can open files created in MS Office. Consider trying to open this file with the analogous Open Office application. While there are no guarantees, it might work and, depending on the value of the data, worth a try.

          You mentioned that the file was moved to a key drive. I assume that you are referring to a USB drive? Does that drive have an encryption protocol set? Or does it compress the file in any manner? I am assuming that you are opening the file from the drive but thought it worthwhile to ask the question.

          I will keep looking- I have never completely lost a file that didn’t go viral. I have lost formatting but the substance has generally been salvageable.

        • December 11, 2006 at 8:16 am #3225449

          I’ll try it

          by portable123 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

          In reply to Another odd thought

          I just got a copy of Open Office, haven’t installed yet. I will let you know what results I get.
          Thanks.

        • May 16, 2007 at 8:07 am #2591177

          late post of perhaps helpful info

          by btheball · about 16 years, 11 months ago

          In reply to I’ll try it

          Here are the troubleshooting steps Microsoft takes you thru:
          http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826810/
          I hope you were able to recover your file.

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