Recovery of a corrupted stack

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Sat Apr 23 07:15:04 EDT 2005


>Hi,
>
>If you need to save the scripts then try this:
>
>With a fresh load of RunRev (making sure there are no Stacks in 
>memory), open the message box and type:
>
>answer file "Which Stack?";edit script script of stack it.
>
>This will prompt you for a file, select the Stack in question.
>
>Which will open the Stack Script, you can use: edit script of card X 
>of stack it or edit script of control "X" of card "Y" of stack it
>
>This should allow you to at least copy your Scripts into a text 
>file(s) so you can re-paste them.
>
>You can then try to open the Script using the command "open stack 
>it", however this may crash the IDE if the Stack is really corrupted.
>
>One thing I tried was to comment out the "preOpenStack" and 
>"openStack" handlers in the Stack Script and save it back using the 
>"Apply and Save Stack" command (after making a backup).  Once you 
>have saved the stack quit RunRev and try reloading the Stack. If it 
>now works you know it's something in your preOpen ot Open handler 
>that is causing the IDE to barf when the Stack is first opened.
>
>You can also write a tool stack that you can use to extract Objects 
>from the Stack in question. If you need more help on this feel free 
>to contact me directly. I have become quite a expert at recovering 
>"weird" Stacks lately!
>
>All the Best
>Dave
>
>>Paul Salyers wrote:
>>>Maybe this answer will also help me, not a "reinitialized" I try 
>>>to load it in my rev editor and it closes down not even asking if 
>>>I wish to save.
>>>
>>>I can't even load in edit mode. Any suggestion. This script isn't 
>>>some great program I was just making scripts to see how they 
>>>worked so I remade in about 5 min. I would like to know why this 
>>>is happening.
>>
>>I'll bet the folks at RunRev would too.
>>
>>What did they say when you sent it to them at support at runrev.com?
>>
>>--
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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