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Hello guys
I am having a problem, a strange one for that matter.
I have a floppy disk drive on which i have a file.
I cannot open it for some reason, it's a MS-WORD file.
The error is : The document name or path is invalid.
try these suggestions.
*Check File Permissions for the document or drive
* Use the file open dialog box to locate the document.
I have tried the second option and i have located the file.
On double-clicking, the same error re-appears.
Any help would be appreciated.
-inv
Try to drag and drop it off the floppy into your my documents folder. This usually will get you around any strange permission problems. will also give it a new path. Also make sure it is a .doc file. let me know what happens when you do this
~Spy
Correct me if I am wrong (anyone), but if you were able to copy it to a floppy successfully, it has lost any permissions that it once had. This is because you have essentially relocated the file to another physical disk (or at least made a copy). Normally, you would check permissions by right-clicking the file/folder and choose properties. There should be a sharing tab or Security tab - depending upon whether the new location is NTFS or FAT if you were able to move it to your hard disk. However, at this point, it would inherit the permissions of the target location. Confused yet??? :D I hope I helped.
t2k2
Edit: Spyrus is right about the filename. It should definitely be a .doc file. It could be that the file's extension is not recognized by your OS. If the doc is not a word file, it could be that the doc was created in a program that is not recognized by nor installed on your puter.
No spyrus, that doesnt help.
Also, i tried to open with Notepad and it shows jibberish.
Wordpad says "it cannot open the document "name.doc" "
Does it mean the file is corrupted ?
Even if it is, how to change permissions ?
-inv
The file could very well have been corrupted somehow during the save from hard disk to floppy. That's not unrealistic. By the way, what OS are you using? I've seen alot of weird stuff happen to floppies when working on Win2k.
Not sure how important the information on the disk is, but if your willing to shell out a few bucks, you might want to check this out.
Cheers:
I would suggest if you are a local admin or a domain admin/power user you stick it into a folder and right click go to properties like t2k2 said and inhert the permissions (take control of it) you go to either sharing or security and there should be a permissions tab. take control of it. now the reason that word pad isnt opening it is because a .doc file is a microsoft word document. I am assuming you are using a windows machine prolly 2k right? Please let me know. OS and if you have the office products.
Spy
t2k2, it was a file made on Word 98, and yes, my OS is win 2k.
It's okay Djm, it wasnt as important as me spending $80, but i'll try something myself.
Thanks guys.
unless the disk is formatted as ntfs, you shouldnt have to worry about permissions.
try to scandisk the floppy and see if that repairs any degredation. if not, it is most likely corrupt.
as long as the information in this file isnt something of tight security i can open and try to export it to a notepad file if you would like. Just drop me a PM or reply in here and I can get you my email.
~Spy
Don’t know if this will help, but my son had similar problem.
He had a Word file, downloaded it, clicked on it, would not open, eventually locked up computer.
He was using W2k and Office 2000.
What was happening is Word Pad tried to open it, could not, but continued to use all the resources in the background so when he used Office to open it, it locked. Just used task manager to close the Word Pad application and opened it directly from Office, no problems.
Hope this helps.
Hey, not sure if you'd want to do this...
This is what i do with corrupt word docs / excel docs / etc...
I wrote a simple program that opens the File (Just Like Notepad) but then i run it through a few character filters to clean up the text... this doesn't always work- but i have found it to be very useful :-)
anyway- i hope this helps...
I can post either the code or a binary of the program i mentioned...
Hello everyone,
The problems is solved. I've got another copy of the same program by a nice run of luck.
I would want to thank ya once again.
-inv
I've seen some stuff like this happen a few times. I know that you're already through with this problem for now, invader, but let me tell of an issue I've noticed...
Windows Explorer does not pass Japanese/Asian characters (in the file name) to the executing programs correctly when you double click the file via Explorer.
I have a few Japanese files, and having Japanese characters inside the file is no problem. The problem is when the names are in Japanese. Word (with any other program through OpenWith) goes and says invalid file/file not found, etc. When you use the Open menu via Word, it is able to open the Japanese file, but Norton AV says that a virus was found. (It is the "" virus, by the way. Just empty quotes) I know there is no virus, so I click Ignore, and the file loads.
I don't think that you were opening up files with Japanese names, but this was just something that I thought people should know. Double clicking the file doesn't always work in every case. You may have to use the program's open file menu at times.
-Tim_axe
Is that file is locked using some unprintable ASCII characters? If so, i think You can't be able to copy it to any other location.
Any body has a thought of such a problem. Usually, In dos, files are renamed using ASCII unprintable characters like a password with only few combinations..
what's this about file filtering. how exactly does it work?
btw invader glad u solved ur prob. =P