Restore corrupted stack

[Peter Bogdanoff]

I’m aware of the tilde file naming while saving a stack. I didn’t see that.

I saw this sort of corruption in the past (LC 5 or 6) where a stack functions correctly as far as I could tell while it is open. When it is closed and reopened the corruption message appears. In my case, I left the LC 7 stack open for some days, while making backups from the Finder. Not until I quit and reopened it did I find out it was bad.

I have since rescripted my lost work—meanwhile making text document backups of important scripts.

Peter Bogdanoff
UCLA


> On Aug 17, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
> 
> This happened to me the first time I opened a stack in version 7. Check to see if there is a stack file with a tilde (~) in the name in the same folder as the original stack. When LC attempts to convert a stack, it saves the old stack using a tilde in the name so you can recover if something has gone horribly awry. This file can be renamed and opened in the old version of LC.
> 
> If you can do all this, the next thing to do is subscribe to a decent cloud based backup system that has versioning, so you can recover in case things go catastrophically awry (not to be confused with horribly awry, which is not nearly as terrible as catastrophic).
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
> On Aug 15, 2015, at 11:18 , J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com<mailto:jacque at hyperactivesw.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 8/14/2015 11:12 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
> Yes, I understand the change in stack format. Unfortunately the stack
> won’t open in any version of LC 7. I always get the stack corrupted
> dialog.
> 
> In that case I think the team would like to see the stack, so it's probably time for a bug report.
> 
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