7.0 corrupted two stacks!

[Peter M. Brigham]

On a side note, I have a patient documentation and management system too (the original name I had for it was "ptData"). I have tried to run it in later versions of LC and it was a no-go, so I have stuck with 5.5 -- I know, I'm living in the dark ages but I simply can't afford to have things not work. At some point I will take the time to test it thoroughly with 6.6 at least and work out all the bugs, but with over 35,000 lines of scripting this is not trivial. And I already have a full-time job.

After, like you, I lost 3 weeks of patient documentation following a crash, I decided I was never going to lose data like that again. I now have automatic backups via TimeMachine and Dropbox, and I also back up my files at the end of each work day to a peripheral drive in my office. I have had a couple of incidents of unexplained corruption since then but I only lost a couple hours of work. I urge you strongly to go with some sort of automated backup system.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed the "stable" version of 7.0, didn't give it much thought. I only opened two stacks, noticed that a simple script in one stack wasn't working right.
> 
> On mouseup
> sort numeric by field "foo"
> answer "all done"
> end mouseup
> 
> I didn't get an error message, but the sort didn't happen.
> 
> I wondered if some syntax had changed in 7.0. I peeked at this list, got scared, tried to quit without saving. I trashed 7.0. I failed to save myself.
> 
> The two stacks I opened come up corrupted in LiveCode Community 6.6.5. One is a small stack that doesn't change from month to month, so it is backed up, and I can easily share both the good version and the corrupted version. The other is quite large and complex and contains HIPAA protected information, so I can't share that one. These are stacks that I have used every day for years, through the various versions of RR and LiveCode, with nary an error.
> 
> The corrupted stack is "patient info.rev"
> 
> From the message box, I tried
> 
> go to card X of stack "patient info.rev" where X is an arbitrary integer within the range of the number of cards in the stack.
> 
> With the corrupted stack I get "file is not a stack"
> 
> Damn my eyes! I normally back up the folder containing all these stacks -- they are all linked to each other, about once per week. I am sorry to report that I have neglected to back up these stacks for about a month.
> 
> The big stack containing the HIPAA information -- loss of that one month of data will cost me a few thousand dollars in lost revenue, or many hours of wasted time, recreating the data, or both, unless there is some way to repair the stack. I am in pain. I hope someone has some good ideas about repair possibilities.
> 
> The small stack I can share, does someone want to take a look at it? I'm not quite sure how to share it, so please tell me how to do that.
> 
> Tim Miller
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