Backup of PM's is garbled

For some reason, and I'm not on my usual machine this week, when i try to make a backup of my PM's, it spits out scrambled characters and not standard text characters...??

 

Looks like this....


‹x
ì½ys[W–åû¿"ôn²œ%)Kg L[2%Ò"m²Û©—Q¯ .IX˜ƒ(æ‹ÎÏÞ¿µö9÷²(SÙÝñºÞKf•Ew8Ã×Î×Ø=yÙ|ûz¯Øo¯zqxð²XZ^YùeãåÊÊns7¾Øl¬Íqk0éN»ÃA«·²²w¼ôìu›ÿÝÛÙ}öuó y¸÷ì»áxÖŸËÅëq÷}kZGådÒº('E»uön6*ÎÇÃ~±útyíéòêú×+Óî´Wê!§Í·‡{ÅôzT~3-?LWÎ&>~q²û¶øîÞ)Šóá`º|Þêw{×ÛEkÜmõþ\}<

 

using IE version 6.0.2600.0000

...if that helps...

thanks in adv baron

 

I discovered that PM backups seem to be compressed files. Try unzipping them.

Cheers,
Traden4Alpha

 

How would I unzip the file? It spits the backup output into a new IE window.

Thanks for your help!

 

One thing that is different about the machine I am using right now is that it doesn't have winzip installed, but rather AlZip, which is a much better program.

Maybe AlZip doesn't integrate as obnoxiously into the computer as winzip does...and doesn't automatically de-compress everything.

Could that be it? Is the compression a .zip format??

 

I named/renamed the file to have a .zip extension and that worked for me.

Good luck,
Traden4Alpha

 

Compression my ass - it's Wolof, a Senegalese dialect and translates thus :

"Dear Bungrider,
My uncle is the deposed President of Senegal and has access to $125 million in a joint bank account with ...(garbled)......."

 

LOL...I'll try the .zip thing tomorrow.

gotta go play now.

thx again,
-b