Confused about substacks

[Devin Asay]

Hi Bob,

When you turn a mainstack into a substack of another mainstack, that substack becomes part of the stackfile containing the mainstack. In effect the stackfile containing the former mainstack is "orphaned". Usually I just get rid of these orphaned stackfiles to avoid confusion. 

Bottom line: substacks are part of the same stack file of the mainstack.

Hope this it what you were asking.

Devin


On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Hi all. 
> 
> I am a bit confused now. I created a new stack, saved it, made it a substack of my splash stack. No problemo. I can see the substack on the hard drive, I can see the substack in the application browser as a substack of my splash stack. 
> 
> BUT THEN...
> 
> I right clicked my splash stack in the application browser, and created a new substack, named it, saved it, application browser looks peachy, but the stack file is not visible on the hard drive! Does making a stack a substack create a COPY of the original stack and imbed it in the main stack, or is the file hiding somewhere else on my hard drive? If the former, then am I correct in thinking I do not need the other stack files I CAN see on my hard drive, because there are now copies of them in the main stack?
> 
> I am soooo confused...
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University