RE: FrameMaker: File Corrupted

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Keith Hansen wrote: 
 
> When I try to open a FrameMaker 7.2 file, I get this message:
> 
> "This file has been corrupted. Please check your file system, disk,
and
> network. Try opening the most recent backup file."
> 
> Any suggestions on how to open a corrupted file? If nothing else, any
> way to salvage the text of the file as plain text?

Try the "heroic open" command, Esc o H. 

IIRC, you must have some other FM file open at the time. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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