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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2007can't open a presentation anymore
One of my student made a presentation and saved it on our 2003 server. Next time when she was working on her presentation in MS PP 2002, the file suddenly froze and we had to use the alt+ctrl+del option to close it. Since then. the file can't be opened by any PP version. The message we get is: "The file represented by Ella.ppt can't be opened". It has happened to a few more students this year. Can you advise? Thanks, Neri (computers administrator) mevogalil see Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00108.htm cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more... > One of my student made a presentation and saved it on our 2003 server. > Next time when she was working on her presentation in MS PP 2002, the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks, > Neri (computers administrator) Thanks. I tried importing slides to a new blank presentation, and had no success, as the new file froze.. I tried looking for temp files but found only MSWord files. I'll give it another try tomorrow. I agree with Steve that working on the local drive is the best solution for the future, by any means! However I must try to recover this presentation, that was very special... Neri, Mevogalil As of the wall as it may seem, you might want to use Open Office to open it. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com > Thanks. > I tried importing slides to a new blank presentation, and had no [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Neri, Mevogalil Guys, you are great! I recovered the file by renaming it's tmp file, that I found. Thanks very much, Neri Mevogalil > One of my student made a presentation and saved it on our 2003 server. > Next time when she was working on her presentation in MS PP 2002, the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The message we get is: "The file represented by Ella.ppt can't be > opened". It has happened to a few more students this year. In addition to the suggestions in the link Taj mentions, it might be a good idea to instruct your students always to work locally; that is, copy PPT files to their local hard drive, work on them from there, then copy them back to the network when done. Tedious? Yes. But it'll help prevent corrupted files due to network problems. PPT seems more sensitive to these than most apps. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > One of my student made a presentation and saved it on our 2003 server. > > Next time when she was working on her presentation in MS PP 2002, the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ What can I say? You are absolutely right. Sometimes one has to be told (by an expert) to do what he felt was right from the beginning, but wasn't assertive enough to imply it. Thanks, Neri |
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