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Need help. With Vista, Wrdpad corrupted text -using RTF

gardurnit
14 years ago

When I type very long documents , and I use RTF not anything else so I don't know for sure, I often get

corrupted text.

It's while I'm typing it's that my input causes some kind

of error in the conversion from ASCII to RTF (I think)

and the document's RTF conversion 'goes bad' for

the time I'm typing. If I save and start over it's OK.

If the document is not very long it's OK.

It's as if when there's lots and lots of ASCII to RTF

converting going on (That's the only way I know to

say it) the document will begin to show up letters

that are the wrong font, color, size, etc. AS if the

ASCII to RTF conversion has lost an important 'bit'

of the code.

IF a bit of the code, for RTF, is lost.. as in HTML , it

will affect words and characters after that error

because the 'right' code isn't there or was corrupt.

The only way to 'fix' is to save document often, if

an error starts.. copy the good part, close the document

without saving, open it again, paste the copied part

(that's so I can have saved it from being lost) and

hope to begin again.

Thrings that cause the Document to go corrupt..

Pasting long strings of text into the document,

especially if the new string is of different font type

or color or size.

My memory is OK according to many runs of Mem86.

Other editors dont have the problem. But I need

RTF and not many simple editors use it. If you

have an RTF editor that's simple that you like

I'd like some tips to them.

I'd rather fix the problem

I seem to think if I could turn off disk caching while

making /typin the documents that would fix the

problem. I'm not quite sure why I thik this. but how

can I turn off disk caching for writing to see what I

can learn?

Is there anyone who thinks they can help me figure this

one out? I'm more than willing to help make it right

and find out exactly why it's being corrupted.

Thank you.

Andre

Comments (3)

  • zep516
    14 years ago

    See link. And let us know the results please.

    Here is a link that might be useful: support.microsoft.com

  • mikie_gw
    14 years ago

    Perhaps look into 'Open Office' ... the Writer is what you want. Pretty much the same thing as MS Word. Freeware !

    You may be able to turn off hard drive write cacheing in the properties of the hard drive,,,, in Device Manager.

  • gardurnit
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    Thank you for the reply. Things have not improved and
    I've been doing research to find out why. It's only me,
    one guy, so maybe it's my problem.

    If you're interested and want to persue it I will take a
    look back here sooner next time and if you can send a
    quick link of this thread this one time to me I'll
    be sure to get back.

    ajajaj
    a t
    rediffmail com

    THanks Andre

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