I plugged in my USB today and my files are all coded. Every single one.
I go to open a word document (my USB is predominately filled with word documents) and a box appears that says "File converter" and the name of my file. It then asks me to pick an encoding that will make my document readable [ 1. Windows (default), 2. MS- DOC (D has an underscore under it) and 3. Other encoding), non of which do because it is all in giberish code.
Can someone please help?? i really don't want to hear there's nothing i can do, because i don't want to lose my files.
Thanks
Difficult to say
Tue, 2008-01-01 13:21 by admin
There are several possible causes, including a defective USB stick.
Some USB memory modules come with software that encrypts the content. Did anything like that perhaps install itself when you first used the USB stick?
If anybody else has any ideas what could have caused this, please chime in.
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