Field Corruption?

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 00:30:12 EST 2005


On 11/29/05, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> I have suddenly received from a user of one of my stack that has been
> working fine for several years, are report that "my changes are not
> being saved to the disk file!"
>
> I had them email me the stack and have discovered this rather
> incredible, obscure problem:
>
> What you see in the field is not what you get if:
>
> a) you put that field into a variable and write the variable to disk
> b) copy the text and paste into BBEdit
> c) simply put the fld into a url (to save to disk)
>
> Now, I have isolated the problem to one long paragraph... tha simply
> does not change... not matter what edits you make on screen and in
> the field... even if you save the stack.. quit revolution, open
> again.. .your edits will appea there on screen, but not in any kind
> of output.

Is it possible that one or more lines in the field has exceeded 64K characters?
Weird things happen when this occurs.

Apart from that, my only suggestion would be to confirm that you don't
have two fields witht he smae name, so your user might be editing one,
but exporting another.

Sarah



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