Your work is corrupt
Yeah so yesterday I was sending my experimental part to one of my professors and she couldn't get it open. The file was "corrupt". I was like "ok, I think refworks was saying that too. I wonder what it means..." So I google and stuff and was like "oh, I can only get the text of it back? It opens fine on my computer". So I was not really worried since it opened fine on my computer and was working great. I'm talking about a 10,000 KB word document. Big I know and that's not even with the appendices that are like another 20,000 KB. So saving it again and doing stuff to it didn't seem to work and I was like "I really don't want to just take the text and do all the formatting again." Another person might have panicked but as long as I can open it and copy the text and such I saw no problem.
So yeah I did finally solve the problem by converting the whole thing (and my theoretical part, which was also corrupt) to rtf format and then back to word and there is like no change to the actual document by doing that. So problem solved. Made me happy since I did get a bit worried about it and wanted to solve it fast before the documents possibly stopped working for me too. So today one of my professors is reading my experimental part. The whole 62 pages (introduction to conclusion). Not including the 100 pages or so of appendices. I hope by tomorrow she'll get back to me with corrections. Hopefully not many corrections since I haven't got that much time anymore.
Oh I did find this theoretical mistake in my work today after I turned it in. I'm sure no-one else would have noticed it and even I noticed it due to this new source I got this idea for a summary table of these rules. And I was like "WHAT? It's more instead of less stable then?". So this sort of affects my results but not in a big way since the rule that I had gotten wrong was not really truly applicable for my work. But I'm glad I have it correct now.
But I best head home now. I have one more structure to refine and then my landlord is coming over to show the appartment to someone. And we are finally going climbing again. We haven't been in like ages since my boss was sick. I hope I haven't forgotten everything. (Uh oh, hands sweating...)
So yeah I did finally solve the problem by converting the whole thing (and my theoretical part, which was also corrupt) to rtf format and then back to word and there is like no change to the actual document by doing that. So problem solved. Made me happy since I did get a bit worried about it and wanted to solve it fast before the documents possibly stopped working for me too. So today one of my professors is reading my experimental part. The whole 62 pages (introduction to conclusion). Not including the 100 pages or so of appendices. I hope by tomorrow she'll get back to me with corrections. Hopefully not many corrections since I haven't got that much time anymore.
Oh I did find this theoretical mistake in my work today after I turned it in. I'm sure no-one else would have noticed it and even I noticed it due to this new source I got this idea for a summary table of these rules. And I was like "WHAT? It's more instead of less stable then?". So this sort of affects my results but not in a big way since the rule that I had gotten wrong was not really truly applicable for my work. But I'm glad I have it correct now.
But I best head home now. I have one more structure to refine and then my landlord is coming over to show the appartment to someone. And we are finally going climbing again. We haven't been in like ages since my boss was sick. I hope I haven't forgotten everything. (Uh oh, hands sweating...)
posted by elisa @ 17:16
1 Comments:
At 22/2/07 11:58,
elina said…
That's a good trick to change to rtf. I think I should have done that on my thesis when it started crashing. Gotta love Word!!!
When are you coming back? Soon, I suppose.
Um, I have lot's of work to do. later!
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