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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re:Copy/Pasting an IM Ruined a Document!
« on: April 28, 2004, 07:13:03 AM »I looked in vain for a "print" feature somewhere on the IM page
I don't honestly remember there being a print feature for IMs - only posts. I think the only way to print an IM would be to print the entire Web page with your browser's print feature.
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Immediately before these backslashes, and in the middle of my notes which were now cut off, was this strange message:
FHYPERLINK "../Indexes/timeline.html"
Tonight I called the university tech desk, and they said the file had somehow become corrupted. To my dismay, they said there is no way to recover it. I find that difficult to believe since we hear so much about how nothing is ever really gone from your computer no matter how you try to delete it.
Anyway, the moral of my story is a warning, I guess, not to copy and paste text from the html versions of the pages on this site!
How weird. But somehow I doubt copying text from the forum or even any other Web site could do what you describe happened to your file. For one, any text copied from a Web page turns into simple text once it's sent to the Windows clipboard. About the only ASCII control character that would be there would be the codes for simple line breaks. Secondly, there's no such file in any of the forum's Web space as "timeline.html" or any directory named "indexes." And lastly, an FHYPERLINK is a Windows ActiveX control, and there aren't any of those here on the forum because everthing having to do with the forum is controlled by PHP scripts that created simple XHTML files, nothing ActiveX - or even anywhere on the server the forum is hosted on because the server is running Linux, not any form of Windows.
I wish I had some explanation for you as to what might have happened, but the whole thing seems just too odd to me.
But as for recovering your file, well, that all depends. Much of what is written on your hard drive is recoverable, but ONLY if it hasn't been written over by something else. There are a few different data recovery programs for Windows, but one that I happened to like when I used Windows is named GetDataBack, and you should be able to download a free trial copy of it here. (Try the NTFS version) A free trial should be all you'll need to check to see if copies of the file still exist on your hard drive and to recover them.
Good luck!