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Im sure i've tried to save the title page but you cant unless you go back to your script and save the whole thing, which I'm pretty sure i've tried but i'll give it another go.
Thanks MacDuff i'll try and get the patch.
Check out my scripts...if you want to, no pressure.
Anyone have a clue what that means? If it means what I think it does, I really am screwed. All the master copies of my FD screenplays are all giving me that message and so is the PDF versions and even some odd .doc files as well and not just on this PC, on my laptop as well.
I am using 6. It seems every script in any format that had anything to do with FD minus my series which is crazy but they are all giving me that message.
This is not just the files on here either, my back-ups to.
Wes - pick a final draft file and do the following:
1. Right-Click on .FDR file and choose "Open With..." 2. Choose Program 3. Browse 4. Navigate to Final Draft folder 5. Find final draft.exe and highlight it. 6. Click on Open
This should fix up your problem (if it is a file association problem...)
That doesn't seem to do it either. I really have no clue why this happened unless putting the files on a thumb drive, then onto my laptop and back and forth so I could work on stuff depending on where I am... The problem with that is that that is why they created thumb drives.
FinalDraft help and advice says the only reason that Unexpected File Format happens is when you send files over AOL (E Mail) and I have never had the e mail nor do I send my scripts through e mail to myself.
I have just been having bad luck these past few weeks.
Defrag doesn't work either and I just finished getting in contact with Final Draft themselves and "Tarik" the guy who was helping me basically told me the same crap that is on the website so I politely told him to do it himself if he is so smart.
These people expect you to pay all this money for a program that ruins 90% of your hard work and they can't even bother to HELP you.
Wes did send me a couple of his scripts that I tried opening in FD7 as well as Notepad, Word, Works, and Wordpad, but I was completely unsuccessful. I even tried tweaking the fil extension and maybe seeing the code or text or something, but I was still empty handed. I even downloaded the FD6 viewer and tried that but same thing.
The ones that screwed up are in PDF, fdr, notepad and even a few htm documents that all came out of Final Draft in one way or another.
I have the files backed up on my laptop, a thumb drive, and an external hard drive that is brand new as of last month just to be safe I even sent a few to myself through e mail and uploaded them to my site because I'm paranoid about this type of thing.
Like I said before, my series is perfectly fine so I dodged that bullet but basically everything else and even the back up files on my other drives are in a similar state of error.
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Dear Steven,
It sounds like the script became corrupt or damaged. To remove corruption, follow the steps below:
If you have Microsoft Word, then open Word.
1) Go to the File menu
2) Select Open
3) There should be a dropdown menu where you can select -- Recover Text from Any File
4) You will find a lot of junk at the beginning and at the end of the file -- you will have to highlight/select & delete this extraneous information
After the file is clean, then follow the instructions below:
1) Save your file as a text only file, not rich text format (rtf), not Text with Layout, but text only. 2) Launch FD7, then go to the File menu and choose New -- select the type of script you want to be writing. 3) Go to File>Open; 4) Navigate to where you saved the text file; 5) CHANGE FILES OF TYPE TO TEXT DOCUMENTS 6) Select the text file and click Open; 7) Open as Script; Go to File>Save As and name this file, ideally something different from the original; 9) Continue to work from this new file.
If a more detailed change is needed, then take these additional steps.
1) Go to the Format menu> Elements> Apply a Template (7.1) or Load (all other previous versions)> Select the type of format you would like to use -- most users choose Screenplay
2) Go to the Tools menu>Reformat -- click on the corresponding buttons to the text selected in the script. Go through the whole script to ensure 100% compliance.
That is the e-mail from Final Draft customer support. I tried it and did not even get past the lots of junk idea because the file was not even opened as his e-mail says.
I just wish I knew what I did wrong so I can avoid it happening ever again.
I sent Don a PM about that Ninja's Curse file from Shorts because I believe I e-mailed him a second copy as is the case when you submit stuff, you attach the file on the next page of the submit form. (It wasn't corrupt originally if I have at least a page of reviews for it.)
I did have someone send me a fairly recent draft of my superhero screenplay that was only a couple revision off of where I was when it was screwed up. Luckily for me I wrote the script originally in Word and converted it later thus meaning the master copy was not damaged.
As far as the others that I really cared about; nobody would have the latest drafts. Hopefully the older drafts I sent myself about 2 months ago are perfectly fine waiting for me to download them.
-I'm not sure if this is in the right forum, if it isn't, my apologies-
For some reason, recently, my Final Draft has been freezing up on me every couple of minutes. Now, you can imagine how unbelievably frustrating it is to write 3 or 4 pages and then find out it's gone. Now, imagine this happening 9 or 10 times in a span of 2 days, and that's how I'm feeling right now.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Any solutions?
To clear it up, basically, the program'll stop responding randomly, causing my work to be lost. Yes, I could save periodically but I'd prefer if my writing wasn't interrupted with freezing every couple of minutes.
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