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Corrupted .txt file

CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member -  
bazfile Posted messages 58492 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -
Hello and thanks for being here.

I hope I’m in the right forum (otherwise please point me in the right direction).
I have a .text file that no longer wants to open (as if it were by chance the one where I have all my passwords ...). Error message: Cannot open the file .txt - Check that the disk is present in the specified drive.
Even though I have another .txt file on this drive that opens perfectly.

Does anyone know how (and where) to repair this type of file?

Thanks in advance.

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    bazfile Posted messages 58492 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   20 268
     
    Hello,
    Try to recover an old version of this file see THIS PAGE.

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    bazfile 
    Moderator/Security Contributor.
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    1. CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member 5
       
      Hello bazfile and thank you.
      Unfortunately it doesn’t work: my corrupted .txt file isn’t on C: but on an external drive so there is no access via Shadow Explorer

      Another idea?
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  2. contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
     
    Your error message seems to indicate that you click on a link to open the file rather than on the file itself...

    Use Windows File Explorer to locate the file on your external drive and click it to open.
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    1. CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member 5
       
      Thank you.
      No, I do use the Windows Explorer and I click on it to open it. It is then that this error message appears. Moreover, I can neither copy this .txt file nor move it: any idea?
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    2. contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243 > CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member
       
      What letter did the Windows Explorer assign to your external hard drive?
      With which software are you trying to open your TXT file?

      What concerns me is your error message.. "Check that the disk is present in the specified drive" That means you are using a drive with a removable disk (like a floppy, CD, DVD, virtual, etc.) and that the file is not inside...
      It also means that if you click on your file name, the software you are trying to open with finds a path at the end of which it does not find the file... (hence my hypothesis of an "ink" file).

      And regarding a password file, if it was created by specific software, it is quite possible that it is a cached file inside a TXT file and that it has nothing to do with a TXT file.
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    3. CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member 5
       
      Thank you again.
      My .txt file was created around 2016 by Notepad (it was not created by a dedicated password software). I’ve been using it by clicking on it since then without a problem. It was saved (not backed up!) on an external 500 GB hard drive labeled I: in Windows Explorer. The other files on this external drive (including another .txt) open without issue.
      I’m not familiar with the 'ink' files

      Thank you because this is really an annoying case, as you can imagine with these passwords accumulated over the years.
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    4. contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243 > CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member
       
      You should try opening it with a program other than Windows Notepad.

      With Word, for example, by forcing the TXT import filter or with a file manager equipped with a text file viewer...
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    5. CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member 5
       
      With Word it doesn’t work
      And how to do with: a file manager equipped with a file viewer in text mode...
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  4. CARISEY Posted messages 324 Status Member 5
     
    I read in a forum that a .txt file never repairs itself. Do you think that's true?
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