2.9.0 Solved

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Thu Apr 3 19:28:30 EDT 2008


Mark, you're a genius. Compacting the stack before transferring it did  
the trick. It's a small stack 56k, but was 201k before compacting.  
Lots of bloat!

Thanks, this needs to go down in the FAQs!

Joe Wilkins

On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> Did you compact the stack in HyperCard before importing it? It  
> happens very rarely (never happened to any of my own stacks), but  
> there might be some garbage in your stack that makes Rev think it  
> isn't a HyperCard stack.
>
> Is the file size different, after you have copied it over to the Mac  
> OS X machine? Do you use any compression tools when transferring it  
> to the other machine?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 4 apr 2008, at 00:57, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Yes, I use it every day, though not on OSX - on a G4 running 9.2.2.
>>
>> Get Info shows its Kind as an HyperCard document, but when I put an  
>> extension of .mc (I had also tried .rev earlier), it says the Kind  
>> is a StackRunner document. Except for going back to 2.7.4 and  
>> converting it, I don't have any other ideas.
>>
>> Joe Wilkins
>>
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