Seeking any way to view the contents of a (possibly corrupted) XML file. It's the database file from a Mac app that manages plain-text notes. [more inside]
posted by sparrows on Apr 20, 2009 - 11 answers

My fantastically unstable IBM T42 (which is on it's 3rd, soon to be 4th, life) died a little while ago, no longer booting into Ubuntu. However, it loves to boot into Windows. How do I nuke both? [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Jul 11, 2008 - 8 answers

I tried to update my Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I broke something. Help me make it work again. [more inside]
posted by special-k on May 17, 2008 - 4 answers

Quicktime files recorded with OnLocation CS3. Some work, but most don't. The file size is appropriate for their length, so I'm really hoping that there's [more inside]
posted by ASoze on Mar 20, 2008 - 3 answers

Sometimes photos from my digital camera end up corrupted once they're uploaded to my computer. What's going on and how do I make it stop? [more inside]
posted by logic vs love on Nov 24, 2007 - 8 answers

Corrupted Files Filter: Program(s) to detect corrupted JPG and MP3 files? (More inside) [more inside]
posted by chalupa on Feb 2, 2007 - 5 answers

My camera recently ate a month's worth of intense picture-taking! About 90% were salvaged by imgsave, but of course the remaining 10% are the best or most important. Each of those broken images completely draws as a thumbnail, but only partially renders when opened. There is no apparent consistency to how much is drawn or which pictures were eaten. [more inside]
posted by whatzit on Feb 17, 2006 - 9 answers

I'm hoping to recover some corrupted files that (I think) got messed up during a transfer to a Firewire drive. Could you be a lamb and step inside? [more inside]
posted by Hankins on Aug 30, 2005 - 0 answers

Is it possible to get image files off a corrupted CompactFlash card? [more insi#$&*(!NO CARRIER] [more inside]
posted by Vidiot on Jan 12, 2005 - 5 answers