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Hi All,
Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Classic |
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"Classic 42" wrote in message ... Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Classic Have you tried the disks in another machine? The floppy drive may be going bad, or is just in need of cleaning. You can probably still pick up one of the cleaning disks at a computer store or Radio Shack. How many times have you re-written the disks? They don't last forever either. SC Tom |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Classic 42" wrote in message ... Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Classic Have you tried the disks in another machine? The floppy drive may be going bad, or is just in need of cleaning. You can probably still pick up one of the cleaning disks at a computer store or Radio Shack. How many times have you re-written the disks? They don't last forever either. SC Tom Thanks for your input Tom, Floppies have only been written to the once. I found a 3 1/2 floppy disk cleaner in a drawer and applied it but with no result. When accessing the floppy disc I get the splash screen with the Microsoft Works Logo and the files, but when I try to open a file I just get the same message as before. i.e "A:\Name.wps." etc.Also "May not be supported by installed converters". How do I check the last bit. Thanks. Classic |
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:48:37 +0100, "Classic 42"
wrote: Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. First of all, note that this is *not* a word processing problem, nor is it a Windows XP problem. If you can read some of what's on the diskettes, but not all of it, almost certainly the problem is with the diskettes themselves or with the diskette drive. What's written on a diskette always has a limited life, and diskettes are a very poor medium for your critical data. If you are lucky, the problem may be with the drive rather than the diskettes (try the diskettes in another computer to find out), and you can solve the problem by replacing it (the are very inexpensive). But for the future, I strongly recommend that you *stop* using diskettes for this purpose. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:48:37 +0100, "Classic 42" wrote: Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. First of all, note that this is *not* a word processing problem, nor is it a Windows XP problem. If you can read some of what's on the diskettes, but not all of it, almost certainly the problem is with the diskettes themselves or with the diskette drive. What's written on a diskette always has a limited life, and diskettes are a very poor medium for your critical data. If you are lucky, the problem may be with the drive rather than the diskettes (try the diskettes in another computer to find out), and you can solve the problem by replacing it (the are very inexpensive). But for the future, I strongly recommend that you *stop* using diskettes for this purpose. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup Thank you for the advice. I will use an external H/D in future and will attempt to open the diskettes on another machine, I only hope that I can recover the files. Classic |
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:31:59 +0100, "Classic 42"
wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:48:37 +0100, "Classic 42" wrote: Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. First of all, note that this is *not* a word processing problem, nor is it a Windows XP problem. If you can read some of what's on the diskettes, but not all of it, almost certainly the problem is with the diskettes themselves or with the diskette drive. What's written on a diskette always has a limited life, and diskettes are a very poor medium for your critical data. If you are lucky, the problem may be with the drive rather than the diskettes (try the diskettes in another computer to find out), and you can solve the problem by replacing it (the are very inexpensive). But for the future, I strongly recommend that you *stop* using diskettes for this purpose. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup Thank you for the advice. I will use an external H/D in future and will attempt to open the diskettes on another machine, I only hope that I can recover the files. You're welcome. I also hope you succeed, and good luck. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Classic 42 wrote:
Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Classic Will Windows Explorer list the files on the floppy? If not either the floppy drive or the diskette are bad (as others have said). If yes, then your problem lies elsewhere. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Classic 42 wrote: Hi All, Hope this is the correct forum!! XP Home (3) M.S. Works. Works has been running well for ages, I save my work to floppies. Now when I attempt to access the floppies I get the message. Works cannot open "A:\Name.wps". File may be in use by another application, file may not be supported by installed converters, or file may be corrupt. Some of the folders open, but not all. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Classic Will Windows Explorer list the files on the floppy? If not either the floppy drive or the diskette are bad (as others have said). If yes, then your problem lies elsewhere. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico Thank you DadiOH, They must have been bad diskettes 'cos when I tried other diskettes (over 25) on this machine I could open all of them, pics, text, HTML, saved email, the lot. So it wasn't the floppy drive. As I said before I am now saving my work to an external H/D Thank you all for your invaluable input. I'm getting to like this help group!! Classic |
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