I bought a new Toshiba notebook with Vista Home Premium three months ago. Since then I've lost three files written in WP that I know of. The files are both on a flashdrive and on the c: drive. When I try to open these three files, the page is blank. However, the directory lists them with a normal size (e.g. 49KB) which makes me think they are still there. When this happens to the copy on the flashdrive, it also happens to the copy on the c: drive.

I keep all my document files on a flashdrive, which I use on two different computers. I copy them to the c: drive as a back up.

On my former Dell notebook with Xp, I wrote in WP8 and saved to 5.1 I transferred all these files from the flashdrive three months ago when I bought the Toshiba with Vista. I have opened many of these in WP 8, 10 and X3 without problem, as well as created new files.

However, three important files are only giving me a blank page when I open them.

The first time this happened the file was a new one created in WP 10 and saved to WP5.1. When I tried to open it, I got a blank page.

The second time, the file was one I transferred from the old Dell (Xp). When I tried to open it in 8, 10 or X3, I got a blank page. I took both files to an office computer I use, which still has Xp. Again I got a blank page.

The third file contains an article I spent a month writing in WP10 and saving to WP5.1. I worked on this every day, opening the copy on the flashdrive. I copied it up on the c: drive as a backup. Three days ago when I tried to write on the page, it went gray and I got the hourglass. After half an hour of waiting, I did ctrl-alt-del and closed out WP. I then opened WP10 and opened all of the pages that I had been working on. All opened but my article. I got a blank page. The directory said there was a normal size file. I then tried to open the older version (five days older) on the c: drive. Again I got a blank page. I took the flashdrive to the Xp computer and got a blank page for that article (and the first two).

How do I recover my article? And how do I stop this from happening again?

What is WP?

Anyway I had a similar thing happen to me in Microsoft Frontpage and I had to open the html page in a notepad and copy it back into the blank document to publish.

WP = Word Perfect


I opened the document in notepad but only saw gibberish

Sorry I don't know about WP