doc file corruption

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i'm not sure if this happened to you before.

but all 19 chapters of my 44 chapter story turned all funky, i searched and found out doc files get corrupted.

any free programs to help this?

for now i'm just going to copy these chapters off of fan fiction.net.

but alot of my other stuff is in doc format. and there is no telling when they will get corrupted next.

i am luck i posted my main story on fan fiction. kinda like online storage.

Try using LibreOffice. It might be able to read the file, although that's a bit of a long shot.

For future purposes, I would suggest using LibreOffice for everything and storing files as .odt. The format is open and isn't going to change for marketing purposes every couple years like .doc does, so it should be more reliable.

The easiest thing to do is create periodic backups of your files. It only takes seconds to zip all your current doc files into a zip file and save them on a USB stick. It is a good idea to name such backups with the date they were created. Easy to go back to any point in the past then and retrieve your files. I can't believe people still lose their work due to being too lazy to spend a few seconds doing backups.

yeah after i posted this i opened the file no sweat in open office, then i converted them all to .odt.
my little free office program is awesome.

i honestly had no idea that would work, would have been nice to know long time ago. i've lost other doc files like this, this was the only story i was not just going to give up.

Most times I tried to get MS Office to load a corrupted .doc file it would simply crash, and in some cases take Windows with it.
Presumably the former is what Microsoft would call a "graceful" version of the latter.

I dumped it years ago for Open Office/LibreOffice and never looked back.