Thanks to Enrico and Dan. Enrico, I appreciate your response! But that advice isn't going to work in a commercial environment with locked-in OSes. And - regardless of the fact that it might be nice if we went Linux! - that's not likely to change. As to the alpha version - I agree with you in principle - but that's what was available via sagemath as the "best" version of sage for Windows (via Downloads path), and I have to get up and running on my job (which is optical engineering) rather than spending hours (see OS, above!) trying to recompile from source, with a virtual machine thrown into the mix...
NONETHELESS, I essentially followed your advice! At least on the reinstall... Thankfully, sagemath has posted a more-recent version of Sage for the Windows/VMWare installation. So I saved all the HTML files I could (unfortunately, I lost one work file completely. So chalk that one up on the "cons" list of trying to use sage full-time to do work work, at least in this environment). Then I de-installed that virtual machine and started over with the fresh download of sage. I also downloaded Firefox (which is my default browser at home, but - unfortunately - not at work) and am running the browser fully in the windows side. I hope that will protect my notebooks from further crashes... Now I've cut and pasted cell by cell from the HTML version back into the Firefox window running sage (loading the HTML file directory doesn't work because it can't find the Sage server. At least it looks, though!) and have recovered one worksheet. So I lost one out of three files (thankfully, the shortest, most- straightforward on!) and probably about 15 hours of work time. And I still have to cut-and-paste the second HTML version "back into" Sage (i.e. back into a Firefox window/tab that can find the Sage server). But I'm "back up and limping..." I'm going to try this mode of working (Sage Version 4.5.3, Firefox in Windows to try to protect from VM crashes...). Hopefully the problems I've been having won't recur... Thanks to you both for your time, and your willingness to help! Regards, Brian On Sep 30, 8:56 pm, Enrico <enrico.manto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forgive my impertinence but this sounds like a slightly unstable setup > to be using. I'd just reinstall if dumping a file into sagenb/storage > doesn't work, preferably on a Linux partition rather than in VMWare > and not using an alpha version of Sage. > > Enrico -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
