[thelist] data recovery advice please
Martin
martin at members.evolt.org
Fri Jul 27 17:04:44 CDT 2001
Colin Mitchell wrote on 27/7/01 8:30 pm
>Ok, I'm going to make some (hopefully good) assumptions here, and guess that
>the files were recovered, and you're on a Mac. If so, when you're
>double-clicking on the files, I bet they're loading in SimpleText, and
>you're seeing the binary data. You should try going to the apps you use to
>work with these files and choosing 'Open' and then opening the file. Or,
>try dragging them to the appropriate app.
Also you could change the file type/creator. There's a CMM module
called 'more file info' which does that. Look for it on Tucows.
Cheers
Martin
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