How To Open, Fix, Repair Corrupt Inpage File

Open, Fix, Repair Corrupt Inpage File, Recover Data

This small tutorial will help you to open, fix, repair corrupt Inpage file giving errors and Inpage Crash Problem on opening files, without using any tool. The small neat trick will recover data from corrupt error giving Inpage Files, holding your hard work of weeks and months.

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These days almost all Urdu Books Publishing Work, Students Thesis, TV Drama Scripts, Advertisements, and Product Brochures are being designed on Inpage Professional Desktop Publishing System with the help of other Graphic Designing Softwares like Adobe Photoshop and CorelDraw.
Although Inpage Professional is very stable and runs error free even with very large files, but still there are chances of its files going corrupt due to various reasons like Flash Drive Pull Out while file was not completely written, very complex formatting of Text Layout, Windows OS Crash Problem or Power Failure on Desktop PCs.

Once this Inpage file goes corrupt, you lose hard work of hours, days, weeks or even months. Just imagine you have been working for 2 months on a College / University Thesis and in last week just before submission, your file goes corrupt and Inpage crash every time you open this file.
I have recovered my Inpage Data from many files for myself and sometimes for my friends. Most recently it was an episode of a drama script. The most important Inpage Corrupt File data recovery I did was for another friend who lost 5 months’ work of English to Urdu Translation Job of a 500 plus pages book.

One more thing I would like to add here is you only get simple text without formatting and may be with some extra special characters here and there. But most definitely, only text is important, character and paragraph formatting can be applied later.
Enough said in the importance of this tutorial and benefits of Inpage Corrupt File Data Recovery. Now I will tell you this ridiculously simple method of retrieving Urdu text from corrupt Inpage Files, without using any tool. All you need is a Plain Text Editor (e.g., Windows Notepad, shipped with every MS Windows OS). This is VERY VERY Important that you use Plain Text Editor, WYSIWYG Word Editors like WordPad or MS Win-Word are not useful. 

A-      Inpage File Data Recovery Using backup files (.B01)

Inpage Software generates a backup file and auto save it after every 5-10 minutes. This file is usually stored in the same directory of your Inpage file with the same name but with extension .B01. If your main Inpage file goes corrupt, you must immediately open this backup file and try to save it as Inpage File. You may lose some data, entered in last 4-9 minutes. If your .B01 backup file is also corrupt, then you can switch to other method, explained in B.

B-      Alternate Simple Neat Trick to Open, Fix, Repair Inpage Files

This trick is very simple but it only recovers non-formatted Inpage Urdu Text. All the Text Styles (Font Faces, Font Sizes, Bold, Italic, Paragraph Settings etc.) will be lost, but you will get what you wanted most i.e., simple plain Urdu Text.

Below image shows what our original file was looking like with Character / Paragraph Styling before going corrupt. Note the areas A & B where arrows are indicating Bold Font, 16 Font Size and Different Urdu Fonts. Original Inpage Look with formatting

Please follow below given steps to retrieve Text from Corrupt Inpage File:

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2-         Click on the corrupt Inpage File you want to recover data and Drag & Drop the file’s icon to Notepad window (see image below).

Drag Corrupt Inpage Files to Notepad Window

3-         You will see garbage data on screen, don’t worry, just click on the Format Menu Above and select “Word Wrap”. Now scroll down until you see some English Text which is Inpage Urdu Fonts name like Zohar Sindhi, Asaar etc. (see image below).

Select Inpage Text of Series of Boxes

4-         When Fonts Names end you will notice a long string of small boxes (which are marked in above image). This is our required Inpage Text we want to retrieve. If a file is small like I used in my example, these only few lines. If you have a large / big file to retrieve, select all lines of these similar boxes and scroll down till you reach end of this string.

5-         Once you reach at end of this string (not end of the file), copy the text either by combination of Ctrl + C or by using Right Mouse Click and Choosing Copy in available options.

6-         Now Run Inpage and open a new file from File Menu > New. In New File, Click Edit Menu above and select paste OR right click in Text Area and Choose Paste from available options.

7-         Congratulations… you have retrieved your lost data. 100% text but no formatting (point A & B), some extra characters (point C) (see image below). You may find and replace these extra characters and give proper formatting to the required text like headings etc.

Recovered Data with Lost Formatting

8-         The Inpage File I used in this tutorial is also available for download for your practice of data recovery. Please note that this file is not corrupt but when you open this file in Inpage and Copy paste data retrieved though Notepad, you will better understand what was lost and what we got back.

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34 thoughts on “How To Open, Fix, Repair Corrupt Inpage File

  1. Hi
    Sir
    I have file saved in inpage 2012 ( Pakistani flag icon).
    but i opened the same file in inpage 3 professional and saved it in inpage 3
    Now file is not opening in any version.
    I have tried B-Alternate Simple Neat Trick to Open, Fix, Repair Inpage Files but all in vain.
    plz help

  2. I was using Inpage 12 and i composed a book in said version. along with this version i occasionally used another Inpage version which is Inpage 3.5.my brother opened the saved file in Inpage 3.5 by mistake. now my whole inpage file got corrupted. i m not able to open my file in either versions. what should i do?plz help me.

  3. I am using In page 2009. after saving the data i shut down my Laptop.but once i reopen the prog, The whole data was missing. its happening again and again. when ever i reopen the in Page prog after restarting the computer, i found my complete data missing.
    i am very tensed.
    plz help me
    waiting for ur positive responce plz
    contact no # 0332-4887641

  4. AOA. i have window 10, in which only one file of inpage is being opening at one time. after closing this file next file opens.
    As well it also take much time to open this file.
    Dear do you have any solution.

    Akhlaq

  5. i was typing a story but i accidently deleted my file… and in confusion i pressed control +s
    is there any way to recovere that? plz help… m depessed…..

  6. My inpage file is getting saved as a pdf instead of .inp format. Can you please tell me what is going wrong and how to deal with this problem? Thanks!

  7. i have tried everything but my inpage file is not opening , and it says that the file
    has not been created using urdu version of inpage.

    HELP PLEASEEEEEEEEE

    1. Your file may have been severely corrupted and over written with some other files data by windows…

      If you like, you can send your corrupt file to

      webtechtips.net AT gmail.com for review :)

  8. its saved my job today,,,, you are an angle thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx man

  9. Sir A.A.

    Inpage Urdu ki file corrupt ho gi thi
    Sir vo ab open nahi ho rahi

    Ap ky tariqa ke mutabiq open karny ki koossh ki hay
    Open Nahi Hoi

    Alternate Simple Neat Trick to Open, Fix, Repair Inpage Files

    Please help me Sir

    Karamat Ali
    0306-4359886

  10. i am using inpage2009, but i can not open my saved files in in page….can you pl z guide me about this?

    1. No Dear, We cannot provide you download link for Urdu Inpage Software. But you can search on google and download it from any other website… It’s available on many blogs…

  11. I have tried the second option and it is still the same i was typing the file and the light went off and from that day the file has gone corrupted os there any kind of way i can get it back please i need help thank you

    1. let me have a look on that file… email that inpage file to me on webtechtips.net AT gmail.com

      1. hello i have sent the file please can you contact me when you get it thanks…. sorry for the late reply was out for a while

  12. Great article .. I just opened a 15 year old file created in early versions. I was almost disappointed that I will ever be able to open it. Followed method 2 with a little amendment. Opened in notepad, copy all, pasted to Inpage and deleted unwanted text. Thanks anyway….

  13. If symbols are appearing in new Inpage file, it could be for two reasons… either there are more than one Inpage Instances are running
    OR
    You have not copied original text with right start and ending. Do it again plz … and if possible, take screen shot of your screen and share it with us…

  14. I’m so happy to read this. This is the type of manual that needs to be given and not the accidental misinformation that’s at the other blogs. Appreciate your sharing this greatest doc.

  15. Usually I don’t read post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very forced me to try and do it! Your writing style has been amazed me. Thanks, quite nice article.

    1. I have done this but when copying and pasting on inpage new file. It appears the same symbolic text not urdu. How can I resolve this problem?

      1. If symbols are appearing in new Inpage file, it could be for two reasons… either there are more than one Inpage Instances are running

        OR

        You have not copied original text with right start and ending. Do it again plz … and if possible, take screen shot of your screen and share it with us…

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