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Hello,
I recently was working at the university on a pdf and added a bunch of comments. When I was home I noticed that the application crashed. It didn't prompt me to recover from autosaved files but I managed to find the autosave file, because autosave was set to every 5 minutes. The problem is, that this is a .tmp File (temp file) and looks something like this.
%PDFUpdate-1.6
%‚„œ”
1428 0 obj
<</AcroForm 1444 0 R/Metadata 1129 0 R/Names 1445 0 R/PageLabels 1397 0 R/Pages 1399 0 R/Type/Catalog>>
endobj
358 0 obj
<</Annots 1446 0 R/Contents 359 0 R/CropBox[0 0 595.22 842]/MediaBox[0 0 595.22 842]/Parent 1404 0 R/Resources 1163 0 R/Rotate 90/Type/Page>>
endobj
361 0 obj
<</Annots 1447 0 R/Contents 362 0 R/CropBox[0 0 595.22 842]/MediaBox[0 0 595.22 842]/Parent 1404 0 R/Resources 1164 0 R/Rotate 90/Type/Page>>
endobj
1448 0 obj
<</AP<</N 1449 0 R>>/C[1.0 0.819611 0.0]/Contents(boersennotiert)/CreationDate(D:20181025142628+02'00')/F 28/M(D:20181025142634+02'00')/NM(09a8bc8d-f93b-9f42-a898-0594a80c7f0f)/Name/Comment/P 358 0 R/Popup 1450 0 R/RC(<?xml version="1.0"?><body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/" xfa:APIVersion="Acrobat:19.8.0" xfa:spec="2.0.2" ><p dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14.0pt;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-w\
eight:normal;font-style:normal">boersennotiert</span></p></body>)/Rect[289.843 624.05 307.843 642.05]/Rotate 90/Subj(Notiz)/Subtype/Text/T(kevinhertwig)/Type/Annot>>
endobj
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[1448 0 R 1450 0 R]
endobj
1450 0 obj
<</F 28/Open false/Parent 1448 0 R/Rect[307.843 728.0 511.843 842.0]/Subtype/Popup/Type/Annot>>
endobj
1445 0 obj
<</AP 1451 0 R>>
endobj
1451 0 obj
<</Names[(˛ˇ~icon+Comment+255:209:0-DEU-0)1449 0 R]>>
and so on...
These seem to be my comments and Text annotations I made. Is there any way to get these comments back to my pdf file?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Hi Kevin,
Sorry to say but its not possible to recover comments from a .tmp file. If recovery is possible Acrobat will prompt you to recover upon relaunch, otherwise, Very very unlikely anyone could recover from this.
Let us know if you need any further help.
Shivam
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