Source of corruption
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Mar 23 22:45:44 EDT 2012
dunbarx wrote:
> I had posted earlier about a stack I use that became neurotic. If launched in a new session from the finder, no problem. But if closed,
> it could not be reopened in the same session. The "stacks" showed no reference to it at all soemtimes, though at other times it was
> indeed listed, albeit still not visible. In those cases I could get and set its loc and other properties, I just could not see it.
>
> Lately it had become intermittantly corruptible, with a dialog telling me so, and recomending using a back-up copy. In those cases it would not even
> open with a fresh start, and I had to trash it and start over with a backup. Thank you, Mozy.
>
> It turns out that the stack had inexplicably had its mainstack reference changed to another stack.
How were you able to determine that, and fix it, if it was unopenable?
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