[CUBE] cube acting up bad

[Rick Rodman]

Does Mac OS X include the 'strings' utility? Yes. That can extract text 
from the file.  Go into terminal, and use:
strings "Desktop/filing cabinet" >Desktop/filing.txt
And all the text will be in filing.txt.  From there, you'll have to 
chop it up.  It'll still be a big file.

I'd probably write a C program which would chop it up, but I'd have to 
examine the internal structure.

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Lacorona at aol.com wrote:

> I just wanted to tell all you great people who helped me --what was 
> actually
> wrong with my cube.
> Or at least what I did that worked. The problems were ms word and aol 
> kept
> bombing dozens of times. Finally hard drive wouldn't fully reboot. I 
> won't go
> into detail about the thousands of things I did that had no effect. 
> There is
> what worked:
>
> 1. Did a partial reinstall of  9.1 OS . This made MS word stop 
> bombing. Dont
> ask me why.
> 2. Increased memory of MS word ; this speeded up save feature for MS 
> word
> that was unreasonably slow, and spell check that would bomb in the 
> midst of
> document checking. Dont ask me why.
> 3. Spent over an hour with an AOL phone tech. at midnight last night.
> Finanlly figured out that the 48MB file of sent and rec'd emails over 
> the
> last several years was corrupt. Moving it out of aol folder and onto 
> desktop
> solved the problem. The file is called "filing cabinet." It was causing
> everything to go haywire. Dont ask me why.
>
> If anyone has any brilliant ideas about how to extract the info from a 
> 48MB
> 'aol filinng cabinet' file please let me know. It absolutely will not 
> open in
> aol, and it of course is in aol "email sent" and "email rec'd" format. 
> I did
> open a tiny file cab (also corrupted) attached to another filing 
> cabinet on
> same account by doing "insert file" into MS Word. Alot of junk, but the
> messages in between the junk are readable. The prob with the 48 MB 
> file is I
> think is too big to insert into a MS doc. Any ideas?
>
> again, thank you very much for helping, Your suggestions helped me 
> find the
> way to fix things.
>
> kub
>
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