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My entire AOL chat log from 1997 just corrupted when I tried to open it in Notepad
Spent 3 hours trying different file recovery tools from old shareware sites, but it's just GONE. Anyone know a way to salvage .txt files from a Windows 95 machine?
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lisa_wilson8721h ago
Try opening it with a potato battery next.
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xena_taylor641d ago
Man, that's a total gut punch. My old Geocities page got nuked years ago and I still feel that loss. Trying to open a file that old in a modern program is like asking a VCR tape to play in a DVD player, it just freaks out. You might have better luck copying the file to a floppy first, then trying to open it on a machine running an actual Windows 95 emulator. Those old file systems were weird.
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