Text document displays only symbols

NightSky · 12-07-2010, 02:26 PM

When I try to open text file with mouse pad or kate write all I see is PK and in small letters HF over TF_
I have no idea how this happened. Can anyone help? How do I get my text document back? Using XFCE4.6.1, mousepad and kate write for my journal. Properties says its a zip archive but I didn't do that. Anyway tried to unzip it and got:

Code:

PowerJustice may be a plain executable, not an archive
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of PowerJustice or
        PowerJustice.zip, and cannot find PowerJustice.ZIP, period.

Thanks

chrism01 · 12-07-2010, 07:58 PM

Try

file PowerJustice

on the cmd line.
Was this file created on MS or copied to/from MS (or Mac?)

NightSky · 12-07-2010, 09:52 PM

chrism01 thanks,
Document was created in mousepad... not copied to MS or Mac... tried to open it with KWord, vi, emac? Emac just displays PK^C^D^T, what does this mean? Don't know what happened. Cmd line directory:

Code:

$cd /home/usr/Desktop/myjournal
$ls
PowerJustice PowerJustice~ PowerJustice~~

File Properties says the file is only 5b... think document is lost. Thanks any way for trying to help.

Aquarius_Girl · 12-07-2010, 10:01 PM

I did guess you would miss that

file is the name of a command used to display the type of the file in question!

Example:

Code:

anisha@linux-uitj:~> file ak.c
ak.c: ASCII C program text

Aquarius_Girl · 12-07-2010, 10:17 PM

and secondly how about trying some document recovery softwares ?

NightSky · 12-08-2010, 02:38 PM

Thank you anishakaul, for clarify the use of command file.

Code:

$file PowerJustice~
PowerJustice:Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

Don't know about document recovery software Googling it..been looking at the man zip. I have zip-3.0 installed. How do I use zip -FF?

Aquarius_Girl · 12-08-2010, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NightSky

Don't know about document recovery software Googling it

See if this helps:
http://www.officerecovery.com/

You can also take the file to windows then use some of the above software meant for windows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NightSky

How do I use zip -FF?

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/fix-corr...quick-tip.html