publisher cannot open the file

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory, save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003 was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"AGS history" AGS wrote in message
...
I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

Happiness is a recent backup... Another lesson learned!
"AGS history" AGS wrote in message
...
I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198256/en-us

Look in your temp folder, you might get lucky. In Windows Explorer, type %temp%
in the address bar, find a temp file that has "pub" as a prefix, change the .tmp
extension to .pub.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"AGS history" AGS wrote in message
...
I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory, save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003 was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

Hello - were you able to access the file successfully or what was the
outcome?
Please advise me as i have just found myself in the same hole !!
ASAP lease

"AGS history" wrote:

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory, save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003 was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

Is this a file you created or something that was sent to you?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"usa1" wrote in message
news
Hello - were you able to access the file successfully or what was the
outcome?
Please advise me as i have just found myself in the same hole
!!
ASAP lease

"AGS history" wrote:

I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

Hi JoAnn,
This same thing happened to me on a 40 pg workbook. Luckily I had already
sent it to print, so the printer has a copy of it. My problem, is that I
cannot open it from my publisher file, my saved docs file or my outbox. I
tried your suggestion below and was presented with a bunch of unreadable
symbols. Any suggestions? Your last post was in 2006 - anything new that
might work?
Thanks.

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"AGS history" AGS wrote in message
...
I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!

Are you using 2003? If you are using 2007 there is a hotfix.
Description of the Publisher 2007 hotfix package (Publisher-x-none.msp):
October 27, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/976177/en-us

Some suggestions he
How to troubleshoot a damaged publication in Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;198256
or
Error message when you try to open a publication in Publisher: "Publisher cannot
open the file" or "Publisher has detected a problem"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928890/en-us


--
Mary Sauer MVP
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"workbook" wrote in message
...
Hi JoAnn,
This same thing happened to me on a 40 pg workbook. Luckily I had already
sent it to print, so the printer has a copy of it. My problem, is that I
cannot open it from my publisher file, my saved docs file or my outbox. I
tried your suggestion below and was presented with a bunch of unreadable
symbols. Any suggestions? Your last post was in 2006 - anything new that
might work?
Thanks.

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

It may not be salvageable. Open Word, File - Open - change the file type to
"Recover text from any file" and select that Publisher document.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you can at least extract your text.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"AGS history" AGS wrote in message
...
I have spent weeks working on a newsletter containing 70 years of history
for
our non-profit. I was putting the final touches on the newsletter this
morning when a window popped up saying windows has insufficient memory,
save
your document, or try closing additional windows. This file on Pub 2003
was
the only window open at the time. I saved the doc but when I try to open
now, it says publsher cannot open the file. I can open all the other pub
files but this one. Please, I spent countless hours researching
historical
materials to put this together and it is supposed to go to print tomorrow
morning. Any assistance would be more than appreciated. Thanks!