Confirm Corrupt file?

[finsfree]

I recovered a bunch of word documents from a users computer the other day.

Then I started to look at the file names and I noticed that some file names had "~$" in front of them (example: ~$test.doc). When I try to open it I get an error message stating..see attached.

After doing some research there was some mention that it might be corrupt but not sure

 

[finsfree]

I tried all 3 different text encoding. No luck....

 

[voyagerfan99]

If that text window comes up it means the file is corrupt.

Also the filename there indicates it is the temporary file Word creates when working on a file, so you wouldn't get a working document from it anyway.

 

[finsfree]

Ok thanks.