Windows 10: RTF file corrupted

Discus and support RTF file corrupted in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I have been writing an RTF file for one year now, and I got home from a trip to discover that the entire thing was corrupted. I opened the file and it... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Jeb Kerman, Jul 24, 2019.

  1. RTF file corrupted


    I have been writing an RTF file for one year now, and I got home from a trip to discover that the entire thing was corrupted. I opened the file and it was blank. Still had highlightable text and the correct length, as if it was all spaces. Once I opened it and found this I closed it and made a copy to work on. Since then, I have tried the following: - Converting it to other formats such as TXT, OpenOffice, and XML - they all produced either nothing or a gibberish of asian characters and random punctuation. Examples: 썠㚭Ơ  둠㾯Ơ 㚮Ơ 맠뵉x 袠ᗒ翽  ώ 㚮Ơ ??  ? ? ?? ??? ? ? ? ??? ???  ? @  - Using MS word's repair option (didn't work) - Opening it in a Hex editor (it returned all zeroes) - Opening it in Notepad (same thing, just spaces/blanks) - Copying and Pasting (It just copied a single space) - Making sure the text colour wasn't set to white - Opening it in OpenOffice (hashtags, all hashtags) After reading all these it seems just it's just properly broken and unrecoverable, but the file size is still fine, and that includes the size on disk. So there's some kind of information in there. But I can't get any kind of information, not a letter. It's not Wordpad, it opens other RTFs just fine. It's just one singular 150kb file that was sitting on my Desktop that is corrupted, nothing else. It seems very strange that this would happen. I specifically chose .RTF because Wordpad had the least features and I wanted it to be encoded in as basic a format as possible. Nothing suspicious was happening around the time, I just opened the document one day and it was all gone. Also, sorry if the formatting for this question breaks. I do know how to use line breaks, but for some reason they won't register when I post the question.

    :)
     
    Jeb Kerman, Jul 24, 2019
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  2. Xylee Del Win User

    rtf. file

    Hi Michelle,

    Some documents when saved takes up space due to its components. For us to help you with your concern, we'd like to know if your rtf file has images on it.

    Meanwhile, if your rtf file has pure texts, we suggest that you follow the steps below to reduce the size of your rtf file:

    • Compose your rtf file in Microsoft Word.
    • Instead of saving, copy and paste your composition to WordPad. All the formatting is copied over too.
    • Save the document with WordPad, and you'll get a significantly smaller file.

    Let us know the results.
     
    Xylee Del, Jul 24, 2019
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  3. Corrupted file RAR

    If the archive has been created using WinRAR, why don't you try WinRAR itself? It has a built-in repair feature for repairing corrupted archive (ZIP as well as RAR). Follow the steps given below:
    • Open WinRAR application in your system.
    • Now click on File tab > Open or simply press Ctrl+O.
    • A small window "Find Archive" will pop up. Locate the corrupt RAR archive from your system directory and select it.
    • Now click Open button.
    • Click Tools tab > Repair archive or simply press Alt+R.
    • Again a small window "Repairing File name.rar" will pop up.
    • Now click Browse to select a location to save the repaired archive.
    • Check the box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and click OK.
    • WinRAR will start repairing of corrupt RAR archive. Once it gets completed click Close.
    I hope the above steps will help you repair the corrupted RAR archive.

    Thanks.
     
    Lincoln Dunne, Jul 24, 2019
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  4. RTF file corrupted

    Corrupted rtf

    My RTF file has some important data , and my pc shutdown while i was editing the file.

    Now , i can not open the file : it says the file is corrupted. I tried searching for solutions , and all the recovery softwares can recover only first 2 pages : i had more than 40 in total.

    When i open the fine using a simple text editor , i can still see about 50,000 lines of hexadecimal code. So , can i convert it back to rtf format ? how ?

    i'd really like all the data back.
     
    Varun_Shah, Jul 24, 2019
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