Word found unreadable content...

Anonymous
2013-11-09T14:49:04+00:00

I am working on my dissertation and recently purchased Word 2010.  Now, when I try to open my paper I get an error message that "Word found unreadable content in....."  When I select yes, to recover that contents I then get another error message that says "we are sorry.  We can't open ......because we found a problem with its contents."  The details then state:  "Operation aborted: max-element-depth constraint violated."

I have tried doing the open and repair and then saving but nothing works...help please?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T08:10:47+00:00

    It was saved-as from an existing file on my moms laptop to her flashdrive then she edited the contents from there.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-02-08T15:31:55+00:00

    It is generally very risky to save a file to a flash drive or open a file from a flash drive and especially to edit a file on a flash drive. The recommended practice is to copy the file from the flash drive to the hard drive, work on it there, then copy it back to the flash drive.

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-02-08T23:08:11+00:00

    Saving to the flashdrive is almost certainly the cause of the problem. 

    You should NEVER open a document from any form of removable media or save a document directly from Word to such media.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-09T07:16:17+00:00

    We learned the lesson the hard way unfortunately. Does that mean it can't be recovered anymore?

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-02-09T08:22:38+00:00

    Unfortunately, that is the case with your document as the individual components cannot be extracted from the archive.

    It's a lesson that I daresay you will not forget.

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