It seems my memory stick (flas drive, gig stick, jump drive, what have you) may be corrupted.
After losing a presentation and all the support files I had (about 12 man-hours down the drain), I'm now fighting some corrupted files (potentially 20 man-hours down the drain).
When looking at the folder in Vista, the icon preview shows the files as they should be (the Draw files show up fine, the Write files show the front page, etc.). When attempting to open the files, a dialog box opens requesting I choose the appropriate character set. Then once the file opens, I get a collection of random characters, usually a whole page of ###### … followed by two or three lines per page of random punctuation.
Are these files gone beyond repair or can they be resurrected?
Next step is ditching the gig stick and getting a new one, plus backing up to other media often.
returns to make another successful wargaming video.