File size – too large to open?

[HVTsRMe]

A novice colleague built a 123MB presentation. I’ve already explained he
should never do that … make it a series of smaller files. Too late however …
now we can’t open it. He was adding (yet another) picture file when it
seized up … dialog box told him to close the file as something was
“incompatible†(that’s all he remembers). He tried to print, but only half
the slides would (printer memory limitation?). Now when we try to open it,
we get “Powerpoint can’t open the type of file represented by …â€

Even though it has a .ppt extension, PP does not recognize it … is that
because the file is so huge?

Is there any way to break it into smaller parts now and recover it? Can we
somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long
shots, but I’ve got to try! Thanks!

 

[John Wilson]

Too late for this presentation but you might like to make sure that "fast
save" is NOT enabled.

One thing worth trying is to open a blank presenation and try to "insert
slides from file" (using the corrupt file as source)
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[max]

i can repare it for you
upload it to some uploadserver like megauload
i will be discrete with the content off course

i shall reduce the filesize and send it back to megaupload

you can contact me at (e-mail address removed)

kind regards, max.

 

[HVTsRMe]

Wish it was better news, but thanks. Was it in fact the file size? For
future reference, is there a maximum size to be kept in mind? Appreciate
your help ...

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Wish it was better news, but thanks. Was it in fact the file size? For
future reference, is there a maximum size to be kept in mind?

There may be but I think it's considerably over the size of your problem file.

Still, there's the "All those eggs in one basket" aspect to it, so your advice re
breaking up the file is *very good*.

Anyhow, start here and read the next few entries:

Corrupted or unopenable PPT files
http://www.pptfaq.com/index.html#name_Corrupted_or_unopenable_PPT_files

Appreciate