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How to Recover PowerPoint Presentation Corrupted due to Fast Saves?
Microsoft PowerPoint provides a Fast Save option that allows speeding
the save process by storing only the changes at the end of file. Thus
the characters' logical order doesn't match with that of physical
order. This contributes in increasing overall size of PowerPoint
presentation to more than required. Also, it is among the top causes
that is responsible for causing a PowerPoint PPT to get corrupt. Thus,
turning off 'Allow fast saves' feature is always recommended to avoid
such corruption or otherwise, it will require you to Recover PowerPoint.
Let's consider a PowerPoint user who has enabled 'Allow fast saves' feature. The user stores valuable data in his presentation, but when he/she tries to open the file, he gets the below error message:
“PowerPoint cannot open the type of file represented by filename.ppt”
This error indicates file corruption that might have resulted because, the 'Fast Save' option was enabled.
Description
'Allow fast saves' just appends the changes to end the file. So the result can be a quite larger file till the time you click 'Save As' to re-save the file. Saving the file includes making all the changes and re-writing all the data. This whole process creates fair chances for file to get corrupt.
Solution
The best option to avoid PowerPoint file corruption is to turn off the 'Allow fast saves' feature. For this, you need to go to 'Tools' menu, click the 'Options', and then click 'Save' tab. You can then clear check box of 'Allow fast saves' and turn off the feature.
However, to recover data from a corrupted and inaccessible PowerPoint presentation, you can try basic troubleshooting of PPT Recovery:
Let's consider a PowerPoint user who has enabled 'Allow fast saves' feature. The user stores valuable data in his presentation, but when he/she tries to open the file, he gets the below error message:
“PowerPoint cannot open the type of file represented by filename.ppt”
This error indicates file corruption that might have resulted because, the 'Fast Save' option was enabled.
Description
'Allow fast saves' just appends the changes to end the file. So the result can be a quite larger file till the time you click 'Save As' to re-save the file. Saving the file includes making all the changes and re-writing all the data. This whole process creates fair chances for file to get corrupt.
Solution
The best option to avoid PowerPoint file corruption is to turn off the 'Allow fast saves' feature. For this, you need to go to 'Tools' menu, click the 'Options', and then click 'Save' tab. You can then clear check box of 'Allow fast saves' and turn off the feature.
However, to recover data from a corrupted and inaccessible PowerPoint presentation, you can try basic troubleshooting of PPT Recovery:
- Try to insert the slides of corrupted PPT to a new one
- Try to open the presentation in MS Word
- Double-click the file in Windows Explorer
- Drag the corrupted file to PowerPoint program file and try to open the file
- Try to use a PowerPoint viewer to open the file
- Use a third-party tool to Recover PowerPoint
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