Where did all my images go??

[Ken Ray]

Yes... you reminded me of a similar situation a long time ago. I think
there's a 255 character limit to file paths on Mac OS. This is a limitation
that was removed in the 2.4.2 and higher MetaCard engine (which will be
"underneath" the next version of Rev when it is released).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: Marian Petrides
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Where did all my images go??


RE: Judy Perry's disappearing images question:

Not sure this is on point but I've found strange behavior if I have a
distribution file which is deeply nested; these problems are resolved by
bringing the stack one or two folders up in the heirarchy. The following are
two problems I noted in the past:

Had trouble with cryptic error messages (got errors that opened the script
error window for Revolution’s source script) when I had the source file very
deeply nested. Went away if I brought it one or two folders closer to root.

Likewise, when I have my distribution executable files deeply nested, sounds
do no play but when I put them at or near desktop there is no problem.

I've also noted problems with saving when the filename gets excessively long
due to deep nesting.

So maybe you can fix your problem by bringing the stack up a few folders in
the hierarchy.... just a thought, something to try if Richard's suggestion
doesn't solve the problem

Marian


On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:


Judy Perry wrote:


I am wondering if the following is a known bug. I have been working on a
Harry Potter game of sorts using Rev 1.1.1 on Mac OSX. I have 3 or 4
substacks. I have a background group. I have many images that were links
to the image files rather than embedded/imported into the stack itself
(largely because when I used the picture/graphic tool and double-clicked
the container I created, I only saw the option to link and, never
considering that an image could be a 'control', only recently figured out
how to import).

Anyway, so probably not the best way of going about it, but it was working
fine for several weeks until yesterday. I opened my mainstack and, poof!
No graphics. Zip. Nada. Nuthin'. I didn't move the graphics, didn't
modify them, I rechecked the path for the link... Just no images.

As you can imagine, this can make one rather cross.

Any ideas?