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Assuming it was disk corruption, as seems likely, it's not immediately obvious to me why plain text would have been any better?
by Wowfunhappy 1y ago
Assuming it was disk corruption, as seems likely, it's not immediately obvious to me why plain text would have been any better?
- al_borland 1y agoPlain text wouldn't be better in that case, but then I'd know it was corruption instead of questioning if there was a spec change and trying to find a compatible piece of software that would still open it.
- wat10000 1y agoRTF is a textual format. You can open it in a plain text editor to see whether it's completely trashed or not. If it isn't, then you can even recover the raw text from it without too much difficulty.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- al_borland 1y agoIn that case, it was corrupt. I did try opening it in a plain text editor. Some of the file was there, but not the whole thing.