loss of access to stacks after "save as"

[Mark Waddingham]

You should be able to - yes.

If that doesn't work then it is possible that something in the environment (in the IDE potentially) is holding a reference to the stack by filename and not name. The question then, though, is how to find out what.

Mark.

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> On 4 Nov 2016, at 19:37, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I suspect it will be because you are referencing your stacks by (the old)
>> filename somewhere else and not name - thus causing the engine to load in
>> the old file, the stack in which has the same name as the existing stack in
>> memory.
>> 
>> 'Saving as' does not create a new stack (in memory) it just saves the
>> stack which is in memory to disk in a new file.
>> 
>> Putting it another way, the 'new' stack is already loaded as it is the
>> same stack as it was before - the only things which have changed is the
>> stacks filename property and there being a new file on disk.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I started with a bare "save as", and had to add other pieces to make it
> work (but I forget why now).
> 
> Can I reduce it to just "save as" and be on my merry way?
> 
> 
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