I'm...damn. I'm honestly almost in awe, I mean, who ends up with a corrupted file and says, "Huzzah! I shall sell it over and over again for zillions of dollars on the intarwebs and retire early!"?? It's almost brilliant--the only cost of doing business is the price of the website. The product is infinitely replicable and totally free. It's twisted as hell, but shit, I have to give points for making lemons out of lemonade.
I can, however, tell you how to get around this "excuse." Files DO legitimately get corrupted--the power goes out before you've saved, the floppy disk (does anyone use those anymore at all?) or flash drive isn't ejected properly because the file was still open, etc. That said, Word can recover text from any file--in the Open window, you set the type to "Recover text from any file." That'll let you open the file, and while a corrupted file will be absolutely chock-full of crap and will probably be hundreds if not thousands of pages long as a result, the original text, even if it's only in fragments, should still be there. It'll be enough for you to be able to tell if a kid is faking with something he got for $4 online, or if her file really did bite the big one.
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Date: 2008-11-22 10:27 pm (UTC)I can, however, tell you how to get around this "excuse." Files DO legitimately get corrupted--the power goes out before you've saved, the floppy disk (does anyone use those anymore at all?) or flash drive isn't ejected properly because the file was still open, etc. That said, Word can recover text from any file--in the Open window, you set the type to "Recover text from any file." That'll let you open the file, and while a corrupted file will be absolutely chock-full of crap and will probably be hundreds if not thousands of pages long as a result, the original text, even if it's only in fragments, should still be there. It'll be enough for you to be able to tell if a kid is faking with something he got for $4 online, or if her file really did bite the big one.