[Hidden-tech] Word Perfect

[Rich@tnr]

Since you said it was a crashed disk - maybe the disk was a encrypted 
drive ?
I've never tried it SO I wonder if you can get what looks like 
individual files which are encrypted and not the file system being encrypted
Filesystem-level encryption, often called file-based encryption, FBE, or 
file/folder encryption

Also you might also try unzip or wmic - which can tell you what the file 
looks like
wmic is a bit tricky and not might tell you what you want but worth a shot

See 
https://superuser.com/questions/898017/windows-command-to-get-all-information-properties-of-a-file

R.

On 9/26/2023 12:02 PM, Annamarie Pluhar wrote:
>
> Tried that. Didn’t work. Corrupted file?
>
> Annamarie Pluhar
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> On 26 Sep 2023, at 11:13, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
>     Try LibreOffice - it does a pretty good job openning older formats
>
>     https://www.libreoffice.org/
>
>     On 9/26/2023 10:48 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
>         Hi there,
>
>         So I have a client who has old files in WordPerfect. They were
>         pulled off a crashed machine and I tried to open them on a
>         Windows 11 machine. I tried Word, downloaded the new version
>         of WP and tried that. Nada. Tried an online conversion tool.
>         That didn’t work either.
>
>         The question is whether her files are corrupted* or are her
>         files so old that an even older copy of WP is required than
>         what the current word processors can handle?
>
>         *when they open I just see lots of characters.
>
>         Thanks for your expertise.
>         Annamarie
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