Corrupted .docx files
Hey everyone!

I have got a rather odd issue. I have over 10,000 .docx files that have a minor corruption in them. When you open the file, Microsoft Word 2010 informs me that "the file *****.docx" cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents.". Once I OK the prompt, it asks if I want to recover the content in *****.docx. Pressing Yes brings up the document contents perfectly. The trouble is, I have to then save/ overwrite the existing file and for 10,000+ files, it is becoming a very time consuming endeavor. I have tried comparing the corrupted file with the de-corrupted file in text editor, but there is nothing obvious there which I can put in a batch script. I tried renaming both to .zip to inspect, but the corrupted file turns into a corrupted zip. Has anyone ever come across this and found a batch solution? I have purchased DiskInternals Word Recovery, however that particular program does not solve the problem.

Any help / advice / direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
August 29th, 2015 6:30am

Hi Denis Maybir,

I suggest you record a macro about opening and repairing the file.

There is a sample macro for your reference.

Sub Macro5()
'
' Macro5 Macro
'
'
    Documents.Open FileName:="20150806.docx", ConfirmConversions:=True, _
        ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", _
        PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, WritePasswordDocument:="", _
        WritePasswordTemplate:="", Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, XMLTransform:="", _
        OpenAndRepair:=True
        
        
    Windows("Edward.docm").Activate
End Sub

You can refer to this article to get more information:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835182.aspx

You can also refer to this similar case:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/10b3f42a-76bb-450d-b1d7-77469205471b/macro-to-open-and-repair-word-2003-in-bulk

Hope it's helpful.

Regards,

Emi Zhang
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August 31st, 2015 2:52am

Hi Emi,

Thank you very much. I will try this today if possible and post an update.

Must appreciated!

Regards,

Denis

September 3rd, 2015 7:12pm

Emi,

I have managed to make use of the macro function as you advised. I had to first generate a text file containing all the *.doc* files using command prompt:

dir /b /s "C:\Stuff\*docx" > "C:\Users\Denis\Desktop\Testbench\files.txt

I then fed the text file into this macro:

Public Function RepairFile(File As String)
' repairs a single given file
Dim doc As Word.Document
RemoveReadOnly (File)
Set doc = Documents.Open(File, _
            AddToRecentFiles:=False, Visible:=False, OpenAndRepair:=True)
        
        doc.SaveAs FileName:=File
        doc.Close
End Function

Public Function RemoveReadOnly(filePath As String)
    Dim FSO As Object
    Dim fil As Object
    Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set fil = FSO.GetFile(filePath)

    If fil.Attributes And 1 Then '1 = ReadOnly
        fil.Attributes = fil.Attributes - 1
    End If
End Function

Sub FixAllMyFiles()
Dim FileName, listFile, listLines, objFSO
FileName = "C:\Users\Denis\Desktop\Testbench\files.txt"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
listFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(FileName).ReadAll
listLines = Split(listFile, vbCrLf)
For Each Line In listLines
   'WScript.Echo Line
   Debug.Print Line
   RepairFile (Line)
Next
End Sub

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Denis

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September 13th, 2015 10:31pm

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