Corrupted stack

Jim Hurley jhurley at infostations.com
Wed Jul 23 10:14:28 EDT 2003


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>Message: 9
>Subject: Re: Corrupted stack
>From: Pierre Sahores <psahores at easynet.fr>
>To: "use-revolution at lists.runrev.com" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>Date: 22 Jul 2003 23:43:05 +0200
>Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
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>On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:12, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>  Ouch!  I lost a stack while working in 2.0
>>
>>  The stack still appears on my hard drive and is 572 K  in size. So
>>  there is something there.
>>
>>  I  tried to open it in RR 1.1.1 and I got a message "Stack corrupted;
>>  check for ~ backup."
>>
>>  I searched my drive for a tilde file and found nothing.
>>
>>  I'm afraid I've been spoiled by RR's reliability and took no precautions.
>>
>>  Any ideas on recovery?
>>
>>  Depressed,
>>
>>  Jim
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>Try to see if a temporary backup issue of the corrupted stack is still
>available on the hard disk. If yes, save a copy of this stack and try to
>reopen it, directly. Test the revert command too of the corrupted stack.
>Both this methods have only chance to work if you did'nt quit the RR
>session along witch the stack has been saved in its actual corrupted
>state.
>
>If this don't work, try to restore the stack in searching among the
>temporary files you can see on your hard drive in using tools like
>"Norton Utilites".
>
>Hope this can help.
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>Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores
>
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Pierre,

Thanks for the tips. I'll see what Norton can do for me.

I am pessimistic however. I did something profoundly stupid. (I am a 
recovering Catholic; hence this need for confession.) I lost the 
stack in question while I was working on it. It just disappeared from 
the screen. I tried to reopen it from the open menu but Rev assumed 
it was already active. So I decided to shut down and start over. And, 
is my habit when closing RR, I *saved* all running stacks, thus, 
apparently saving the corruption. I suspect, therefore, that any 
files I find will also be corrupted.

Jim




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