writerlady6

Hey, guys, six-month followup here. If anyone is still working on this, please give it up. I restarted the file months ago and published it before Christmas. Don't spend anymore time trying to trouble-shoot, if you've even gotten to it yet. I actually used Publisher on other projects after this without ever saving to a flash drive, and haven't had any problems. Perhaps introducing the flash drive into the process caused an issue. Stepping lightly with crossed fingers. I thank every one of you that tried to help though. Much appreciated. (EDIT: Typo)

So disheartening. I've given up on recovering anything from the file by now (plus I missed out on my own Black Friday sales over it, so there's that). Publisher seemed like such a dream to work on. I intended to invest in Designer as well, during Affinity's Black Friday sale. Thank goodness this happened *before* I paid for another program that I might not ever feel safe trusting again.

Here ya go, Sir. Thank you! 6x9_DREAM JOURNAL INTERIOR.afpub

Unfortunately, it didn't make a difference for me on local vs external. I saved to my Desktop all day, but also did my final save of the day to a thumb drive. Both are trash now. So the big question might be: When will it be fixed?

This is the one from the desktop. Did you need the end-of-day one that I saved to the thumb drive as well?

The suggestion was much appreciated; unfortunately, I still get the error. Am attaching the file. Thank you for having a look. 6x9_DREAM JOURNAL INTERIOR.afpub

Morning PaulEC, and thanks much for the suggestion. I was kicking myself last night for not doing this on Tues. (You think you've got good "save" habits, you'll be golden though! Live and learn.) Hope you have a great Thursday.

Hello, all: From what I can see on this forum, this a fairly common issue with Macs, but I have a Windows 10 machine w/64GB RAM. Am using the paid version of Publisher. Was saving to my desktop all night, and at the end of the night, saved to a thumb drive as well. Both copies were trashed when I tried to resume working this morning. I'm absolutely sick over it. Before I try to rebuilding from the ground up, do you have an online tool or a direct Help address through which I could submit this thing for help? I'm hoping for a way to extract the text (which was initially six pages long, but then polished and edited down to two). Obviously, I won't risk another Publisher disaster since this was a time-sensitive project, but if I can at least paste the salvaged text into Canva, I'll find a workaround for everything else. Will be extremely grateful for any & all suggestions. Thank you for your time. Brenda