While I can appreciate the value in being able to retrieve files that have been deleted or lost - I cannot fathom why developers of such products arbitrarily restrict their product to work with a specific type of file.

Surely any user who loses Office documents also may have image files, archives, music and video files that require recovery - probably as a result of the same event that lost the office files.

Wouldn't removing the restrictions on filetypes that this tool can recover, increase it's usefulness? Would it be better value for money (assuming the price didn't go up for each new file extension)? Should users accept software that only provides one part of the solution - for no good technical reason?

Users might feel they have been given a new car that can only be used to drive to the shops. It works really well for shopping trips. But, if you need to drive to work - you need to purchase a different car, and yet another car for trips to drop the kids at school.

I guess by claiming there is something uniquely special about recovering a Word document as opposed to an mp3 file or a zip archive - convinces the developer that "Microsoft Office" is business related so you can ask for more money - which is why available for sale are separate editions. One that can recover a word file. Another edition that can recover an excel file. And (yes) another edition that can recover a powerpoint file.

I think I'm more likely to support a program that just recognises that files are files - to the computer a word file is no different to any other file. Either the data can be recovered or it cannot. If a program is able to recover one file type there is no technical reason why the same techniques cannot be used with files with other file extensions.

BuBBy  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+188)

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Could this not be accomplished through the Free Recuva tool offered by Piriform?
I really do not see any point other than centralizing something like Recuva on just 1 (type) of files for just office/etc..

But what use is this  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+79)

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CorruptOfficeExtractor is a free utility for repairing Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 files. Docx, xlsx and pptx files are really just conventional zip files (with a different file extension). The contents of those zip files are collections of XML files.

The file corruption can happen either when zipping the XML files - or when the XML files are damaged in some way. Office doesn't recover very well from either of these situations.

Corrupt Office Extractor can usually open the Office docx/xlsx/pptx files when Office itself fails. It will allow you to extract the text contents from a corrupt office file, or view the XML contents of the zip container file.

http://corrupt-office-extractor.smartcode.com/info.html

Developers website (and freeware)
http://www.s2services.com/s2services-freeware.htm

Notes & tools on handling "corrupt" files.
http://www.s2services.com/corrupt.htm

Free Service to recover Text/Data from Corrupt Office documents
http://saveofficedata.com/
Privacy Statement - http://saveofficedata.com/privacy-statement.html

BuBBy  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+66)

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I have Office 2010 installed on my system.

Downloaded Regenerator onto W7 64bit without issues. Opened program selected recovery of Word & Excel files to test system. Dialogue box informs me that 64 bit is detected and Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 needs to be installed to continue.

The required SP1 downloaded and installed. only to be informed that I have no components on my computer that would benefit from SP1....!!!

Perhaps others facing this dilemma will suggest a way forward.

Bob (UK)  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+33)

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#1, BuBBy, the developer claims that Office Regenerator can recover MS Office files from fragments, which would be exceptionally difficult to do and would distinguish their product from other recovery products. Excellent freeware is available for general file recovery. Since Office Regenerator requires MS Office 2010 SP1 on 64-bit OSes, I can't test it.

Fubar  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+30)

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