Re: [latexusersgroup] corrupted .tex file

[Peter Flynn]

That file contains 39K of NUL characters and is not usable. Do you not have a backup copy on USB or CD or even floppy disk?

You cannot recreate a .tex file backwards fro a .pdf, it would be like trying to make whole cows out of hamburgers.

You may be able to convert the PDF to Word with some expensive software, and edit that instead for your final version.

///Peter

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Ravikanth Boggarapu <ravikanthb...@gmail.com> wrote:

hai,

I am masters student. I was using texmaker to write my thesis. I lost my source code i.e the .tex file of my report is showing me a blank page  after an immediate shut down of my pc due to power cut.

But the memory shows me that there is some content existing in that. But, I have my pdf already generated. So, if someone can give me a solution out of this as soon as possible. The last date for the submission is  fast approaching. I have attached my .tex file to this .

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[Ole Peter Smith]

real men does not do backups!?

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[Gildas Cotomale]

2013/3/4 Ole Peter Smith :

> real men does not do backups!?
>

Until you loose some data after a crash very few people think about it...
Some editors may be configured to do it periodically if you don't
think about saving your file... They often create a backup copy with
extension .tex.bak or .bak or .tex~ or .~
Some operatin systems (with journalisation) help on recovering last
saved stage of the file when there's a computer crash : Linux does
when the filesysteme is Ext3 or Ext4 or ReiserFS or Zfs... I've been
told that MS Windows should do so with NTFS?

[Florent de ganck]

Hello,

I just had the same problem you had about a year ago. I'm working on my master thesis too. My computer's battery gave up while I was working on my tex file with texmaker. After restarting my pc when i opened the tex file in texmaker, it shows me the pdf version that i made (with "fast compilation") but the window with the code remains empty. In the blank code window (at top) the counters (i guess) show L:1 and C:94899. This means that there is something in that file doesn't it? Can it not be repaired?

I found an automatic backup from this file but only from a few days before. But I would like to get it all back since i worked on it during these few days. Did you find a solution to your problem a year ago Ravikanth? Is there another way to fix this tha typing it again (other than with word or just by looking at the pdf)?

thank you in advance
I hope you can help me
greetings from brussels

Op zondag 3 maart 2013 05:11:35 UTC+1 schreef Ravikanth Boggarapu: