Hi All!
Will Woodruff wrote as a tip for saving wrecked workspaces:
> What do I suggest you ask? Replace the problem table with a known table
> that will open in both the Open Table section and the Map From section.
> Open your workspace. Close the replacement table. Save the workspace.
Well, at first this seems as a splendid idea.
However, the replacing table cannot be any dummy table.
Consider the line
Layer 5
Display Graphic
Zoom (0, 1500) Units "mi"
Label Line Arrow Position Above Font ("Arial",0,9,0) Pen (1,2,0)
With Highway
Now, if Layer 5 does not contain the column name Highway - the workspace
will fail at this point.
In fact, it is almost impossible to recognize all references to a
missing table in the workspace file.
But if the case is a mislaid table, you can give MapInfo a hand in
searching:
Under Options > Preferences > Directories you can add up to 4 search
paths.
If you add the 4 most likely drives or trees, MapInfo will traverse each
one in turn until a Table with the wanted name is found. Be prepared
that this can take a while.
Beware that MapInfo opens the first Table found a name that satisfies
the search condition. So if multiple tables exist with the same name (no
good practice but common nevertheless) another table than the original
may well be opened with possibly fatal results.
The obvious choice in the workspace opener should of course be an option
to skip and turn off all following references to a missing Table.
Regards, Mats.E
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