Recover lost presentation

[MJB]

I edited a powerpoint presentation read directly from a
floppy on my A:drive and clicked to save. Some time later
I removed the diskette from the drive and then found a
message telling me that the diskette was full.

I closed the message and then put the diskette back in the
drive - all that now appears to be on the diskette is
a .tmp file of the presentation which powerpoint will not
open - I assume because there was insufficient space for
the temporary file, therefore it is incomplete. I can't
understand why the original file isn't still on the
diskette, unless it is because it was not closed when the
diskette was removed from the drive. If so, is there
anything I can do to try to read the original file again?
(Years ago I used to use Norton Utilities on DOS files
that needed the closed file hex values set having been
removed from the drive mid-save)

Any ideas would be appreciated

 

[TAJ Simmons]

MJB,

This was the problem.

I edited a powerpoint presentation read directly from a
floppy on my A:drive

We (the mvps) recommend all powerpoint users not to edit a presentation on a
floppy disk.

It's always best to edit on the hard drive (c and then copy the file to a
disk....if the file does not fit...you do not lose your presentation.

For ways to recover what you have left on the disk see this page. (if it was
me I'd copy the .tmp file to the hard drive...before you do any messing with
it)

Recovering a corrupt presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm

There is a slim chance there may be a .tmp file of the powerpoint file
already on your C drive....but I'm not sure powerpoint works that way

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello MJB,

It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with working directly with
files on a floppy disc it's just that, because of their limited capacity,
it's very easy to create files in PowerPoint which exceed the capacity of
floppy disks resulting in damaged or lost presentations.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should restrict or provide some feature which would make it harder for
customers to encounter this problem (perhaps always working with a copy of
the presentation on the local hard drive even when opening presentations
from floppy <may not even be possible on restricted systems>?), don't
forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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