Corruption or encoding?

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October 21st, 2013, 11:29 AM
tommy2k13

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Corruption or encoding?

I am new to coding, and I would like to find out whether the attached file is either corrupt or encoded. I am helping my neighbour with a problem. It started when he tried to resolve the problem himself! I dont really know what he did, but Windows had to be reset to the laptop factory defaults. Before though, I backed up all his stuff with Ubuntu, but when I checked the Documents backup, some were either corrupt or encoded. (I apologise if I am wasting time.) Could anyone shed any light on this?
October 21st, 2013, 02:57 PM
2kaud

Re: Corruption or encoding?

Was your neighbour using windows encrytion to secure the document? If he/she was then backing up using Ubuntu would copy the encryted file/folder without first decryting.
October 22nd, 2013, 04:39 AM
tommy2k13

Re: Corruption or encoding?

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2kaud

Was your neighbour using windows encrytion to secure the document? If he/she was then backing up using Ubuntu would copy the encryted file/folder without first decryting.

No, he wasn't using Windows encryption - all very strange!
October 29th, 2013, 11:55 AM
tommy2k13

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Re: Corruption or encoding?

Attachment 31967 Attachment 31967This is interesting - I opened the file, but this time asked Word to recover any text, and the results are attached!
October 29th, 2013, 11:56 AM
tommy2k13

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Re: Corruption or encoding?

This is the right attachment!