George Simmons Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hi All,To me, this sounds like a dumb question, especially since I consider myself a fairly experienced computer user, but here goes:I seem to have misplaced a sequence somewhere. I can't figure it out, nor can I find the lms file anywhere on my hard drive. I do, however, have the .bak file in my sequence directory. Can anyone explain to me how to restore or recover this "missing" sequence from the .bak file? I've tried changing the file name, and tried changing the .bak extension to .lms, but the S2 software continues to recognize the file as a back-up and won't open it.What have I missed?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Raymen Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 remove bak from file name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 8, 2008 Author Share Posted November 8, 2008 I tried that John, but the S2 software still continues to recognize it as a backup file and won't open it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Make sure that you also take the "." peorid off the name as well. A bak file is only different in name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 S2 still fails to recognize the file. I get an "unknown file extension" error message. I've tried it on other backup files just to see and the same thing happened. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 George,would you post on of your .bak files and let some of us look at it? OR maybe contact LOR again and send it to them.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 No problem - here's the file in question: Attached files MOA Beatles master.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 George.Your file did not have the .lms.bak. for me to open it I changed the .bak to a .lmswhen I first change the name it just showed file as the file type. I then thought I had to make it a lms and did a rename and added the .lms to the file name.Let me know if this helps.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Steele Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I downloaded the file and the problem is you do not have the .lms extension on it. Just rename the file by replacing "bak" with "lms". It opened fine for me after renaming.MarkLooks like I was 2 minutes too slow in my response .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 Geez, maybe getting older means not realizing when you're having a DUH moment. I read your responses and said to myself: I've tried all of that. Why didn't it work for me and why DID it work for them? What are they seeing that I'm not seeing?Then, it dawned on me to check my Explorer settings... and sure enough, I had checked the box for it to hide known file extensions. Once I unchecked that, it then showed the .bak extension in the detail list and I was easily able to solve the problem. I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or relieved - I've been scratching my head and chasing my tail on this for a couple of weeks now. Thanks for helping me see something I should have thought of long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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