eaf.001 file won't open

ELAN
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I recently transcribed a 19-minute audio file on a PC. The resulting .eaf file didn’t transfer properly to my external hard drive, and the original file on the PC was lost. I tried to open the .eaf.001 file (after deleting the .001 extension), but I just get a blank ELAN window. The .eaf.001 file is 153 KB, and I know that the transcribed text is all there, because I can see it when I try to open it in Notepad as a text file. Unfortunately, the format of the text file generated in this way is not really user-friendly. Could you please suggest a solution?

Thank you!

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In principle ELAN should be able to open the backup file after removal of the “.nnn” extension. If it doesn’t there might be something wrong with the back-up (too). Maybe there is some useful information in the log (View->View Log…) after opening the file?
But you may also send the file to me (han.sloetjes AT mpi.nl) so that I can have a look (in an XML editor, which indeed renders the text in a more friendly way than Notepad)?

-Han