Text files now in symbols and jibberish
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:02 am
I had been using W7 with older versions of Open Office without problems for quite some time. I switched to W10 last year and still was able to open and amend the documents in Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office 4.1.3 this weekend. Somehow, all my word processing documents are now jibberish as in the sample below:
ÿWPC›##############Æw######ðu[s㫎Ƭ«Ž‰=Ð#ôtÜk<6cœ#ºÄ¨�ñfÅ”u#s_jzæNEl#ãaÎJvx"#E#`Q•û#Z5É^Ax�
I tried changing the character set in the ASCII filter options but got something similar
WPC¢#### ##########╞w######≡u[sπ½À╞¼½Àë=╨#⌠t▄k<6c£#║─Îɱf┼Ëu#s_jzµNEl#πa╬Jvx"#E#`QÏ√#Z5╔^Ax‗
When I examined the properties of the files, they are all listed as "OpenOffice.org XML 1.0 Text Document" so I tried changing the file extention but that didn't help.
I have 2 questions. What is causing this (If I did something wrong I need to know what it is so as not to repeat it) and is there any way I can get the proper text back?. The files are numerous and lengthy and would be extremely arduous to retype. Any help that anyone could give would be most appreciated. Thank you. Middie
ÿWPC›##############Æw######ðu[s㫎Ƭ«Ž‰=Ð#ôtÜk<6cœ#ºÄ¨�ñfÅ”u#s_jzæNEl#ãaÎJvx"#E#`Q•û#Z5É^Ax�
I tried changing the character set in the ASCII filter options but got something similar
WPC¢#### ##########╞w######≡u[sπ½À╞¼½Àë=╨#⌠t▄k<6c£#║─Îɱf┼Ëu#s_jzµNEl#πa╬Jvx"#E#`QÏ√#Z5╔^Ax‗
When I examined the properties of the files, they are all listed as "OpenOffice.org XML 1.0 Text Document" so I tried changing the file extention but that didn't help.
I have 2 questions. What is causing this (If I did something wrong I need to know what it is so as not to repeat it) and is there any way I can get the proper text back?. The files are numerous and lengthy and would be extremely arduous to retype. Any help that anyone could give would be most appreciated. Thank you. Middie