Backup of PM's is garbled

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bungrider

For some reason, and I'm not on my usual machine this week, when i try to make a backup of my PM's, it spits out scrambled characters and not standard text characters...??
 
Looks like this....


‹xì½ys[W–åû¿"ôn²œ%)Kg L[2%Ò"m²Û©—Q¯ .IX˜ƒ(æ‹ÎÏÞ¿µö9÷²(SÙÝñºÞKf•Ew8Ã×Î×Ø=yÙ|ûz¯Øo¯zqxð²XZ^YùeãåÊÊns7¾Øl¬Íqk0éN»ÃA«·²²w¼ôìu›ÿÝÛÙ}öuó y¸÷ì»áxÖŸËÅëq÷}kZGådÒº('E»uön6*ÎÇÃ~±útyíéòêú×+Óî´Wê!§Í·‡{ÅôzT~3-?LWÎ&>~q²û¶øîÞ)Šóá`º|Þêw{×ÛEkÜmõþ\}<
 
Originally posted by Traden4Alpha
I discovered that PM backups seem to be compressed files. Try unzipping them.

Cheers,
Traden4Alpha
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How would I unzip the file? It spits the backup output into a new IE window.

Thanks for your help!
 
I can't seem to reproduce the error. I use the same IE version as you do bung. hmmm

I do know that the problem is related to compression, as indicated above. The garbled characters usually happen when something gets compressed twice. I don't see where the second compression is coming from though.
 
One thing that is different about the machine I am using right now is that it doesn't have winzip installed, but rather AlZip, which is a much better program.

Maybe AlZip doesn't integrate as obnoxiously into the computer as winzip does...and doesn't automatically de-compress everything.

Could that be it? Is the compression a .zip format??
 
Originally posted by bungrider
‹xì½ys[W–åû¿"ôn²œ%)Kg L[2%Ò"m²Û©—Q¯ .IX˜ƒ(æ‹ÎÏÞ¿µö9÷²(SÙÝñºÞKf•Ew8Ã×Î×Ø=yÙ|ûz¯Øo¯zqxð²XZ^YùeãåÊÊns7¾Øl¬Íqk0éN»ÃA«·²²w¼ôìu›ÿÝÛÙ}öuó y¸÷ì»áxÖŸËÅëq÷}kZGådÒº('E»uön6*ÎÇÃ~±útyíéòêú×+Óî´Wê!§Í·‡{ÅôzT~3-?LWÎ&>~q²û¶øîÞ)Šóá`º|Þêw{×ÛEkÜmõþ\}<
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Compression my ass - it's Wolof, a Senegalese dialect and translates thus :

"Dear Bungrider,
My uncle is the deposed President of Senegal and has access to $125 million in a joint bank account with ...(garbled)......."
 
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