I Am Done With MSWord Mobile

[JaxRhapsody]

On Tuesday- my bday, I went to work on a story and somehow the file got corrupted, and won't open. I write on mobile out of convenience. This was the last straw for me, the app has been fine for a while, but I've had issues with it over the years, doing weird shit, once even made it look like every document had the contents erased- thought I was going to have a coniption fit. Something told me to back up everything as an extra save, but I did that before doing two more chapters, and what I didn't realize was the last few times I had to open it from my file manager was the begining of this bullshit.

I tried several things on my phone to get the file to load, to no success. I figured an actual computer might be able to fix it, but the screen on my writing laptop is burnt out, and I need a vga cable, it's also the only one with Word. One of my other laptops has Office 365, and Wordpad- both of those are useless in this case. I tried programs to restore the file, the contents are there, but the greedy fucks want money. I'm done with it, can't trust it at all. I tried to go back to OfficeSuite, but it's not free anymore, so I'm stuck using Google Docs to write, until I can find something better.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Crap. That sucks. I hate using word on a mobile.

I stick with Google docs. Yes, we're selling our soul to the advertising devil, but that's the way of the world now.

 

[spankableBelle]

I use Google docs on desktop, laptop, and phone to write all my books and short stories. And only ever use Word for revisions and edits.

 

[jsmiam]

I’m betting you tried a few of these, but on the chance not, here’s one article. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/damaged-documents-in-word

Sometimes these work and sometimes they don’t. You could even try open office on a real computer, see if imports more of the file. Good luck!

 

[SyleusSnow]

Yeah, try opening it in another word processor... the LibreOffice folks (not Open Office ... that's long dead) have reverse engineered a lot of the evil in the various MS Word formats. It's resurrected many documents for me.

You might also try any of the repair services like online.officerecovery.com.

Can't tell you what mobile editor is most reliable... I keep my smut off other people's computers and do all writing on my home machine.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I’m betting you tried a few of these, but on the chance not, here’s one article. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/damaged-documents-in-word

Sometimes these work and sometimes they don’t. You could even try open office on a real computer, see if imports more of the file. Good luck!

I'll need to get my hands on a computer with word, the screen burnt out on mine. I have another with Wordpad, but it can't do any of that, it's not the same as Word.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Yeah, try opening it in another word processor... the LibreOffice folks (not Open Office ... that's long dead) have reverse engineered a lot of the evil in the various MS Word formats. It's resurrected many documents for me.

You might also try any of the repair services like online.officerecovery.com.

Can't tell you what mobile editor is most reliable... I keep my smut off other people's computers and do all writing on my home machine.

libreoffice for computer, I don't know why I didn't think of that. If it's free, I'll give it a shot. The mobile version isn't a wordprocessor and couldn't do anything with the file.

 

[LupusDei]

A slightly off topic, but perhaps relatable comment about Google Docs: on a somewhat older smartphone (2018) I now have had two occasions a native Google docs text document refuse to open. Both times I had a lot of things open at once when it crashed (I'm a bit disorganized that way) and one of those documents was quite large (~60k words), but the other was modest. Both times the issue was corrected by... making a copy of the problem file. The copy opened just fine. Makes no sense, but that's computer magic.

 

[Demiurging]

I use WPS, essentially the same usability and interface, works fine on both my mobile and my tablet. Plenty of utility with the free version.

 

[Blind_Justice]

This might be rubbing salt in the wounds, but regular backups help mitigate the damage a corrupted file/lost phone/broken storage might cause. Just sayin'.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

This might be rubbing salt in the wounds, but regular backups help mitigate the damage a corrupted file/lost phone/broken storage might cause. Just sayin'.

It's not rubbing salt. I used to leave it all on OneDrive, and then also save it to my sd card when finished. I guess I got lazy about it, and was further detered when everything in OneDrive opened blank one night. I need to remember that video game rules apply here. And if anybody thinks they can restore the file, I'll happily send it. I ain't worried about it being stolen, it's already being published, and it's niether smut, or have characters old enough to be here.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

A friend of mine let me use Word on their computer to try and recover the file, and it cannot. Word made the problem and can't even fix it- pisses me the fuck off.