HC stack with no resource fork

[J. Landman Gay]

I think I figured it out. The stack has an extension ".stk" which I 
shouldn't have ignored. It appears that's a HyperStudio stack. When viewed 
in a text editor there are no decipherable words, it's all gibberish. 
That's why when I added a creator and type so I could open it in HyperCard 
in an emulator, HC also said it wasn't a HyperCard stack.

Even if I could find a copy of HyperStudio to run in the emulator, I 
wouldn't know what to do with it. I feel sorry for the guy, there are 9 
stacks containing his entire family history. All gone.

If anyone here thinks they could help I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On September 24, 2025 2:26:08 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 2025-09-24 05:36, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> Actually, maybe the resource fork isn't the problem. What are the usual
>> reasons a stack isn't a stack?
>
> So I don't think the engine has ever looked at the resource fork of
> hypercard stacks when it tries to load them...
>
> The only reason a stack isn't considered a stack is if the engine can't
> load it - i.e. there's an error while parsing the binary data.
>
> Its possible the stack has been compressed with Stuff-It or similar
> (which was quite common as doing so allowed the resource fork to be
> preserved alongside the data fork, but without the resulting file having
> a resource fork) - if that is the case here then that would be why the
> engine doesn't like it.
>
> If you send the stack to support we can take a quick look :)
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
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