Computer file – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Repairing corrupt PowerPoint files https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/05/13/repairing-corrupt-powerpoint-files/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/05/13/repairing-corrupt-powerpoint-files/#comments Thu, 14 May 2015 05:39:21 +0000 https://www.henrypoon.com/blog/?p=2084 A free tool called DiskInternals ZIP Repair was able to recover a corrupted PowerPoint file (*.pptx) that I had on my computer.  I learned that pptx files are actually zip files in disguise, and so using a utility to repair a corrupt zip archive could work.  At first I thought it was one of those sketchy bloatware programs, but Lifehacker has written an article about them before, so it should be fine.

Using the program was pretty simple.  I just opened it and told it which zip file (in my case the pptx file which I renamed to a zip file), and then the program did all the work and recovered everything.  It was like magic!

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/05/13/repairing-corrupt-powerpoint-files/feed/ 1 2084 Creating Symbol Files from Block Diagrams in Quartus II https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/02/22/creating-symbol-files-from-block-diagrams-in-quartus-ii/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/02/22/creating-symbol-files-from-block-diagrams-in-quartus-ii/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:02:05 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/creating-symbol-files-from-block-diagrams-in-quartus-ii Open the file you want to make a symbol for

Click File > Create/Update

Select “Create Symbols Files for Current File”

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  • Connect phone to computer in File Transfer mode.
  • Copy/move the theme file to the memory card
  • Navigate to the file using the File Manager and execute it.
  • Install the theme and then apply it when it asks you to
  • Alternatively you can go to the Control Panel > Themes to activate.
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