Corrupted stack

[Pierre Sahores]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:06, Jim Hurley wrote:
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> >
> >Message: 9
> >Subject: Re: Corrupted stack
> >From: Pierre Sahores <psahores at easynet.fr>
> >To: "use-revolution at lists.runrev.com" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> >Organization:
> >Date: 22 Jul 2003 23:43:05 +0200
> >Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> >
> >On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:12, Jim Hurley wrote:
> >>  Ouch!  I lost a stack while working in 2.0
> >>
> >>  The stack still appears on my hard drive and is 572 K  in size. So
> >>  there is something there.
> >>
> >>  I  tried to open it in RR 1.1.1 and I got a message "Stack corrupted;
> >>  check for ~ backup."
> >>
> >>  I searched my drive for a tilde file and found nothing.
> >>
> >>  I'm afraid I've been spoiled by RR's reliability and took no precautions.
> >>
> >>  Any ideas on recovery?
> >>
> >>  Depressed,
> >>
> >>  Jim
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> >
> >Try to see if a temporary backup issue of the corrupted stack is still
> >available on the hard disk. If yes, save a copy of this stack and try to
> >reopen it, directly. Test the revert command too of the corrupted stack.
> >Both this methods have only chance to work if you did'nt quit the RR
> >session along witch the stack has been saved in its actual corrupted
> >state.
> >
> >If this don't work, try to restore the stack in searching among the
> >temporary files you can see on your hard drive in using tools like
> >"Norton Utilites".
> >
> >Hope this can help.
> >--
> >Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores
> >
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> 
> Pierre,
> 
> Thanks for the tips. I'll see what Norton can do for me.
> 
> I am pessimistic however. I did something profoundly stupid. (I am a 
> recovering Catholic; hence this need for confession.) I lost the 
> stack in question while I was working on it. It just disappeared from 
> the screen. 

If this occurs again, try always (from the message box) "set the visible
of window #stack xxx to true" before any thing else.


> I tried to reopen it from the open menu but Rev assumed 
> it was already active. So I decided to shut down and start over. And, 
> is my habit when closing RR, I *saved* all running stacks, thus, 
> apparently saving the corruption. I suspect, therefore, that any 
> files I find will also be corrupted.
> 
> Jim
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Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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