HELP! 'unexpected end of file' error-Is there a fix?! OS 10.4.11

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HELP! 'unexpected end of file' error-Is there a fix?! OS 10.4.11

Getting 'Unexpected end of file' error when trying to open a file (that's a rush job) in QuarkXpress 6.5. I attributed it to lack of memory, so I immediately backed up all files and HD to an external drive to free up space. Restarted and prayed... Quark launched, but file won't open. Same error.

Have: 2.1 GHz PPC G5, 1.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM OS 10.4.11 (pre Intel)

Capacity: 232.8GB, Available: 163GB, Used 69.6GB

Have been searching help site for 5 hours looking for answer and am DESPERATE! I saved changes regularly, but can't access this file at all... I've lost 2 full days & nights working on this project that has to be done in 2 days.

Ran Disk Utility, but no success opening this specific Quark file (Quark will launch- it's just this file that's affected). Have tried to down load Applejack, etc. but keep finding out they only support OS 10.5 or higher. (Haven't been able to afford upgraded system since Intel requires purchase of full verions of graphics software instead of upgrades to the tune of $6k).

PLEASE, I only know enough to be dangerous, so ANY help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Savvy folks- if I'm in the wrong place, please send me a link where I can solve this personal catastrophy.

Many thanks-in-advance

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), QuarkXpress 6.5

Posted on Jan 15, 2014 12:05 PM

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rccharles

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Jan 15, 2014 1:02 PM in response to wahootn

I think you best do over your work from scratch. You need to make backup copies of the files regularly. You need to have copies on multiple disks or flash drives.

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I saved changes regularly

You should know that this isn't sufficient. You need to have multiplte copies of the file. Backup anyone? Could be the file structure got messed up. Could be Quark messed up the file.

You need to get a newer machine. G5's are not reliable any more. Need to see if Quark will run in compatiblity mode on an intel machine. You should at least get an external firewire drive from owc. Old hd's are not reliable.

Boot in safe mode. Hold down the shift key when powering on the machine. This will run a disk repair program. Boot up will take longer as the harddrive is scanned and repaired.

See this article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393

Or from:

mrtotes article :

Boot from the OS X Install disk and from the Menu Bar choose Disk Utility. Then run "Repair Disk" and "Repair Disk Permissions" on your hard disk.

a brody:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689

Here the apple article on booting single user mode and using fsck. See the section on Use fsck:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

I suspect not but Perhaps Disk Warrior will be of some help:

http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

Robert

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