Vista, office 2003 RTF problem

[Gabriel]

Hi All,
I came across a small problem with Office 2003 (SP3) on Vista OS.
I have a problem opening RTF files (they are getting garbeledand hardly readable). same files are OK on WINXP based computers (using same application level).

Ideas?
Gabriel

[Platypus]

On Google I find complaints of Vista corrupting various kinds of files. How are they being transferred? Some of the corruption theories implicate files being transferred on USB devices, flash drive etc.

What's the sequence of the corruption you get? In other words are the files created on Vista? Pre-existing on another system & copied to the Vista one? Once the files view as corrupted on the Vista system, are those the files being transferred back to XP & showing normally? etc...

[Gabriel]

On Google I find complaints of Vista corrupting various kinds of files. How are they being transferred? Some of the corruption theories implicate files being transferred on USB devices, flash drive etc.

What's the sequence of the corruption you get? In other words are the files created on Vista? Pre-existing on another system & copied to the Vista one? Once the files view as corrupted on the Vista system, are those the files being transferred back to XP & showing normally? etc...

The proble is even weirdier..
If I open the RTF in a winxp based computer, do nothing, save -> the files look ok in the Vista machine....
this is very weird...


Gabriel

[NooNoo]

So where were the files created? On XP or Vista?
If you extend what you did - open file on XP, save, then transfer to vista (with what?) and then open then save, then take them back to XP (use the same transfer method), are they then corrupt?

[Gabriel]

So where were the files created? On XP or Vista?
If you extend what you did - open file on XP, save, then transfer to vista (with what?) and then open then save, then take them back to XP (use the same transfer method), are they then corrupt?

I have no Idea how the files where created - but when I just open them using XP and office 2003 (and 2007 for that matter) and save them then the Vista machine is able to view the correctly


Cheers,
Gabriel

[NooNoo]

So you need to create a test document....one on a vista machine and one on an xp machine and see if you have the same problems. If you don't, I would be looking for a corrupt template.