topic Open qlikview files after HD failure in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Open-qlikview-files-after-HD-failure/m-p/560145#M694551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>This monday my hard disk crashed with all the qvw's on it. Although I can access and explore the files, I can't open them in QlikView anymore. The files are quite small (200 kb). However, they contain a lot of intelligent scripting which I definitely need to recover.</P><P>I tried the load without data option but it doesnt help.</P><P>I get several different messages for different files. One is the standard&nbsp; "can't open document" but sometimes qlikview opens the file with the file wizard. This wizard wants to create a load statement with all kinds of weird computerized language (e.g. !@#$%^&amp;*()_DFGH$%^&amp;*IOJHGR%^Y&amp;).</P><P>I also tried the binary load but that doesnt help either.</P><P></P><P>All helpful suggestions are very&nbsp; welcome!</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Tjeerd Wieberdink</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:17:13 GMT tabletuner 2013-07-10T09:17:13Z Open qlikview files after HD failure https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Open-qlikview-files-after-HD-failure/m-p/560145#M694551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>This monday my hard disk crashed with all the qvw's on it. Although I can access and explore the files, I can't open them in QlikView anymore. The files are quite small (200 kb). However, they contain a lot of intelligent scripting which I definitely need to recover.</P><P>I tried the load without data option but it doesnt help.</P><P>I get several different messages for different files. One is the standard&nbsp; "can't open document" but sometimes qlikview opens the file with the file wizard. This wizard wants to create a load statement with all kinds of weird computerized language (e.g. !@#$%^&amp;*()_DFGH$%^&amp;*IOJHGR%^Y&amp;).</P><P>I also tried the binary load but that doesnt help either.</P><P></P><P>All helpful suggestions are very&nbsp; welcome!</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Tjeerd Wieberdink</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:17:13 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Open-qlikview-files-after-HD-failure/m-p/560145#M694551 tabletuner 2013-07-10T09:17:13Z