Re: Corrupted Stack!

[Tim Bleiler]

Thanks Jacqueline,

I don't have any imported images in the stack. I do have some image  
controls on a few cards but their file name is set at runtime and  
never saved with the stack. All of the controls in the stack have  
customProperties and I've started saving arrays into some of them.  
Maybe a bug somewhere using this very new feature?


Tim Bleiler
University at Buffalo


On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:


Tim Bleiler wrote:

Hi,
I've used Rev/Metacard for years and I've never had this happen  
before. I've got a corrupted stack. When I try to open the stack I  
get the following message "Unable to open stack: stack is  
corrupted, check for ~backup file."  I do have a backup but I've  
been through that once and the stack becomes "corrupted" again  
after a couple of saves. I work with several stacks and I'm not  
having problems with any of the others. Anyone have any  
suggestions on causes or solutions?


The main thing I've seen so far that can cause this is an imported  
image in a non-standard format. Not all image apps create images  
the same way.


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Re: Corrupted Stack!

[J. Landman Gay]

Tim Bleiler wrote:

Hi,

I've used Rev/Metacard for years and I've never had this happen before. 
I've got a corrupted stack. When I try to open the stack I get the 
following message "Unable to open stack: stack is corrupted, check for 
~backup file."  I do have a backup but I've been through that once and 
the stack becomes "corrupted" again after a couple of saves. I work with 
several stacks and I'm not having problems with any of the others. 
Anyone have any suggestions on causes or solutions?


The main thing I've seen so far that can cause this is an imported image 
in a non-standard format. Not all image apps create images the same way.


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RE: Corrupted Stack

[MisterX]

Piece of cake!

If you strip any character that's above or below a certain ASCII level, you
should have a text file with the content of your stack that can be easily
parsed to restore the stack. Most "objects" are delimited. I've done so a
zillion times it seems...

But to be honest, I haven't written the stack to recuperate or fix corrupted
stacks yet, but i have lots of hypercard stacks I can't port - including a
14000 Mac icon library that's a shame to throw away... But c'est la vie...
The funniest is that my script extractor HC stack is corrupted too ;)

Challenge:

For 1500 EUs or a free ticket 1-2 week trip to
Luxembourg-Chicago-Monterey-Luxembourg, i'll write an opensource free stack
parser/stack reconstructor... 

Monterey or bust! ;)

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> Subject: Re: Corrupted Stack
> 
> David Burgun wrote:
> > Is the Structure of a Stack File published anywhere?
> 
> Not to my knowledge, as with most commercial formats it's 
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Re: Corrupted Stack

[Richard Gaskin]

David Burgun wrote:
Is the Structure of a Stack File published anywhere?
Not to my knowledge, as with most commercial formats it's considered 
proprietary.

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Re: Corrupted Stack

[David Burgun]

Is the Structure of a Stack File published anywhere?
Thanks
Dave

KOPP Ed wrote:
I searched the archives, but didn't find the silver bullet I was looking
for.
I've distributed a standalone stack (Windows) that calls another in the
"splash screen" style. The second stack is my data stack and it's corrupted.
It can no longer be opened by my standalone app. When I try to open this
data stack directly from Revolution, I get a message "There was a problem
opening that stack: stack is corrupted; check for ~ backup file."
Of course, there's no backup file. Is there any way to ignore the scripting
and just retrieve the data that's stored in the various fields on the cards?
Hwe go seven years with close to zero corruption, and in the 
last two months I've read about three cases.  RunRev -- what's 
happening?

Ed, before you go down the arduous route of rebuilding the stack, 
you might try seeing if there's some way to delete any images in it 
first. In most cases corruption is related to images embedded in the 
stack, and it may be possible to delete those without truly opening 
it (the engine does less work with a stack when it doesn't actually 
open it) with something like this (off the top of my head, so maybe 
it'll need revision):

  on mouseUp
answer file "Select the bad stack:"
if it is empty then exit to top
put it into tStackFile
--
repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards in stack tStackFile
  repeat with j = the number of images \
   of cd i of stack tStackFile down to 1
 delete img 1 of cd i of stack tStackFile
  end repeat
end repeat
  end mouseUp

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Re: Corrupted Stack

[Richard Gaskin]

KOPP Ed wrote:
I searched the archives, but didn't find the silver bullet I was looking
for.
I've distributed a standalone stack (Windows) that calls another in the
"splash screen" style. The second stack is my data stack and it's corrupted.
It can no longer be opened by my standalone app. When I try to open this
data stack directly from Revolution, I get a message "There was a problem
opening that stack: stack is corrupted; check for ~ backup file."
Of course, there's no backup file. Is there any way to ignore the scripting
and just retrieve the data that's stored in the various fields on the cards?
Hwe go seven years with close to zero corruption, and in the 
last two months I've read about three cases.  RunRev -- what's happening?

Ed, before you go down the arduous route of rebuilding the stack, you 
might try seeing if there's some way to delete any images in it first. 
In most cases corruption is related to images embedded in the stack, and 
it may be possible to delete those without truly opening it (the engine 
does less work with a stack when it doesn't actually open it) with 
something like this (off the top of my head, so maybe it'll need revision):

  on mouseUp
answer file "Select the bad stack:"
if it is empty then exit to top
put it into tStackFile
--
repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards in stack tStackFile
  repeat with j = the number of images \
   of cd i of stack tStackFile down to 1
 delete img 1 of cd i of stack tStackFile
  end repeat
end repeat
  end mouseUp

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Re: Corrupted Stack

[Sarah Reichelt]

Try opening the stack in a text editor. You might see the scripts & 
field text there and be able to rescue most of it.

Sarah
On 4 May 2005, at 1:03 PM, KOPP Ed wrote:
I searched the archives, but didn't find the silver bullet I was 
looking
for.

I've distributed a standalone stack (Windows) that calls another in the
"splash screen" style. The second stack is my data stack and it's 
corrupted.
It can no longer be opened by my standalone app. When I try to open 
this
data stack directly from Revolution, I get a message "There was a 
problem
opening that stack: stack is corrupted; check for ~ backup file."

Of course, there's no backup file. Is there any way to ignore the 
scripting
and just retrieve the data that's stored in the various fields on the 
cards?

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RE: Corrupted Stack

[KOPP Ed]

I tried "put the text of fld 1 of cd 1 of stack..." and got the following:

Message execution error:
Error Description: Chunk: can't find stack.

I double checked to make sure that I was giving it the correct stack name.
To make sure, I modified the code slightly to the following:

Answer file "which stack?"; put the text of fld 1 of cd 1 of stack it into
msg.

The code works fine if I select a "good" stack. It doesn't recognize my
corrupted stack. :-(

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To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Corrupted Stack



--- KOPP Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Of course, there's no backup file. Is there any
> way to ignore the scripting
> and just retrieve the data that's stored in the
> various fields on the cards?

see if this works:

put the text of field 1 of cd 1 of
stack "myCorruption" into msg

if it works, make a handler with repeats
for all cards and fields.

good luck,

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Re: Corrupted Stack

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--- KOPP Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Of course, there's no backup file. Is there any
> way to ignore the scripting
> and just retrieve the data that's stored in the
> various fields on the cards?

see if this works:

put the text of field 1 of cd 1 of
stack "myCorruption" into msg

if it works, make a handler with repeats
for all cards and fields.

good luck,

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RE: Corrupted stack

[MisterX]

When a stack starts to crash runrev or becomes corrupted, there's only
one satisfactory solution. Rebuilt it from scratch. Dont even think
of copy pasting the controls (if you can) because the corrupted part
might creep in.

If you didn't password lock your stack, you can find your scripts
back by reading the stack file with a text editor like BBEdit Mac)
or UltraEdit (PC). Make sure you dont copy paste control or hidden 
characters, they might cause invisible problems later.

This from experience...

Fortunately, it "almost" never happens! 

But a good rule of thumb to avoid this is:
- Save often with new version numbers each time.
- Import images after you finish the GUI. 

Cheers
Xavier

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> Subject: Corrupted stack
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a stack I worked on for several days, but appears to 
> be corrupted. According to RR, I should try to open the 
> backup file. I have several from different stages of 
> development, but all give the same error. It contains a lot 
> of lay-outed text and a few small PNGs in the file. I suspect 
> the pictures to cause the problem.  I imported the images in 
> the morning and I saved the stack several times without any 
> problem (so there is no ~stackname.rev file). Only the stacks 
> cannot be reopened. That is why all the backup files of that 
> day are corrupted as well.
> 
> I've had corrupted stacks before after importing pictures to 
> them before when trying to open image-containing stacks on a 
> Windows machine, so I thought it was just a cross-platform 
> problem (since I am a Mac OSX user).
> 
> Strangely enough, attempt #2 of course didn't contain these 
> pictures, but also became corrupted.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to save some work from these 
> corrupted files?
> 
> BTW, the file size became surprisingly large; although it 
> contains about 10 Mb of data I can think of, the file size is 
> almost 48 Mb.
> 
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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 21, 2003, at 12:43 AM, Frans Schoffelen wrote:
Hi Alex,

I may have missed the original posting here but the word "corrupted"
anywhere within a mile of "project" or "stack" brings back nightmare 
nights
of yonder SC and HC years. If you have already covered this could you 
please
let me know some specifics about the corruption off-list?
I am just distributing a fairly large stack inside a corporation.

Frans, I'll let you know the details off-list. To be clear though- I 
seem to be in the definite minority in experiencing this, and the 
corruption is so infrequent that I'm still very productive, and the 
corruption only seems to happen when working in the IDE.



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Re: corrupted stack

[Frans Schoffelen]

>Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:49:31 -0700
>From: Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: corrupted stack

> I've run into a couple more instances of my project getting corrupted
> recently. 

Hi Alex,

I may have missed the original posting here but the word "corrupted"
anywhere within a mile of "project" or "stack" brings back nightmare nights
of yonder SC and HC years. If you have already covered this could you please
let me know some specifics about the corruption off-list?
I am just distributing a fairly large stack inside a corporation.

Thanx

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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 3:51 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Weird.  If the stack is corrupted how is Rev able to be open it?
I guess Rev itself that corrupted it, after it was opened up, and Rev 
just continued to work with it open. After I purged the stack, or quit 
out of Rev, then it could not open the stack again.

Have you sent the corrupted stack to RunRev?
I have. Two different corruption problems. This particular problem, 
nothing ever came of it, beyond an initial response from Geoff. Another 
problem involving duplicate keys in custom properties was acknowledge 
to appear to be a bug and Michael requested I bugzilla it, which I did.

Hopefully your experience will prove as fruitful.
It seems that kind of support is history.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> I would bug it.  The engine itself seems generally reliable in this
>> regard, so it may be something in the interactions with the IDE.
>> As an additional data point, since 1997 I've only had one corrupted
>> stack with MC, and in all cases where a save was terminated (fatal
>> error elsewhere in the system, power outage, me doing something
>> stupid) there was a "~" copy to work from.
>> 
> I've run into a couple more instances of my project getting corrupted
> recently. Since I use altArchive plugin, I just have to look in my
> archive folder for the most recent non-corrupted stack. In this case
> however 3 of the archived stacks were corrupted also and I had to go
> back to the 4th archive stack. So whatever is happening, the IDE is
> continuing to work with the corrupted stack, allowing revArchive to
> make copies of it. This makes me uneasy. Just more data points if you
> are listening RR
> 
> # corrupted archived versions:
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345301 18 Nov 14:37 FacCalc000155.rev
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345301 18 Nov 14:29 FacCalc000154.rev
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345501 18 Nov 14:21 FacCalc000153.rev
> # not-corrupted archive versions:
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  6959978 17 Nov 10:54 FacCalc000152.rev
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  6977865 17 Nov 10:36 FacCalc000151.rev
> -rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7010443 14 Nov 16:27 FacCalc000150.rev
> ...
> 

Weird.  If the stack is corrupted how is Rev able to be open it?

Have you sent the corrupted stack to RunRev?  IT would be interesting o see
if they could determine the source of the problem.  In the one "corruption"
case I had Scott was able to pin down the problem quickly once I sent him
the stack (it was a graphic imported from SC through the RunRev converter
with a property setting that exposed a bug in QuickDraw).   All I had to do
was replace the bad object and all was good after that.

Hopefully your experience will prove as fruitful.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

I would bug it.  The engine itself seems generally reliable in this 
regard,
so it may be something in the interactions with the IDE.  As an 
additional
data point, since 1997 I've only had one corrupted stack with MC, and 
in all
cases where a save was terminated (fatal error elsewhere in the system,
power outage, me doing something stupid) there was a "~" copy to work 
from.

I've run into a couple more instances of my project getting corrupted 
recently. Since I use altArchive plugin, I just have to look in my 
archive folder for the most recent non-corrupted stack. In this case 
however 3 of the archived stacks were corrupted also and I had to go 
back to the 4th archive stack. So whatever is happening, the IDE is 
continuing to work with the corrupted stack, allowing revArchive to 
make copies of it. This makes me uneasy. Just more data points if you 
are listening RR

# corrupted archived versions:
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345301 18 Nov 14:37 FacCalc000155.rev
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345301 18 Nov 14:29 FacCalc000154.rev
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7345501 18 Nov 14:21 FacCalc000153.rev
# not-corrupted archive versions:
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  6959978 17 Nov 10:54 FacCalc000152.rev
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  6977865 17 Nov 10:36 FacCalc000151.rev
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  admin  7010443 14 Nov 16:27 FacCalc000150.rev
...
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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
That raises a good question:  could there be anything unique to the 
stack
file in question or its scripts that makes it more prone to corruption?
Yes and no. It's my project stack I've been working on for 18 months. I 
work on the project every work day in Revolution. There is nothing 
unusual about the 2-3 days out of 365 days when the project gets 
corrupted. It's not surprising it would be *this* project stack - 
because that's 90% of what I do in Revolution. Also the project's data 
stack was corrupted once (seperate stack) and the mainstack has been 
corrupted once or twice. So it's not just a single stack in question.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

I would bug it.
OK folks it's bug# 857. Please add your observations to it.

summary: corrupted stacks are never accompanied by a ~ backup file.


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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

Hi Alex,

I've similar experiences as Richard with this. Since using Rev, I've 
(knock
on wood) *never* experienced a corrupted stack --and I've crashed Rev a
bunch ;-)
I figured Richard is still using Metacard most of the time & hence the 
good track record. You are lucky indeed.

On those rare occasions when I couldn't get a stack to open, I lock 
messages
and open the stack,...
FWIW when you do get a corrupted stack you will see an error dialog 
"There was a problem opening that stack: stack is corrupted, check for 
~ backup file".

This happens even with messages locked- you can't even open the stack 
at all.

As I'm sure you know, Rev loads your whole stack(s) in memory and 
works with
them while in memory. So, the *only* time a stack can get corrupted is
during a save or save as (or virus).
Which is why I think there must be a problem with Rev's save routines. 
These corrupted stacks have occurred on various different OS X 
installations with different hard disks, different CPUs, different OS 
versions, etc. No OS crashes or Revolution.app crashes have preceded 
the corrupted stack either.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Chipp Walters wrote:

> I've similar experiences as Richard with this. Since using Rev, I've (knock
> on wood) *never* experienced a corrupted stack --and I've crashed Rev a
> bunch ;-)

That raises a good question:  could there be anything unique to the stack
file in question or its scripts that makes it more prone to corruption?

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RE: corrupted stack

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Alex,

I've similar experiences as Richard with this. Since using Rev, I've (knock
on wood) *never* experienced a corrupted stack --and I've crashed Rev a
bunch ;-)

On those rare occasions when I couldn't get a stack to open, I lock messages
and open the stack, then comment out all the

on preOpenStack
on openStack
on startup

handlers and go from there. Usually it's something in one of those handlers.
As I'm sure you know, Rev loads your whole stack(s) in memory and works with
them while in memory. So, the *only* time a stack can get corrupted is
during a save or save as (or virus). I'm using XP. You're mileage may vary
if on Mac.

altArchive has saved by *%$ quite a few times also! For those of you who may
be lurking and don't know, altArchive is a free plugin which saves iterative
versions of your stack and puts them in an 'archive folder' at the same
level as your stack. More can be found at:



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Re: corrupted stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Alex Rice wrote:
> 
>> This "~" file is starting to take on mythic proportions for me. I've
>> had stacks get corrupted several times, and not once have I been able
>> to see a "~" backup file.
> 
> continuing that thought...
> 
> So is there, or should there be a bugzilla bug for "stacks being
> corrupted with no ~ backup stack existing for recovery"?

I would bug it.  The engine itself seems generally reliable in this regard,
so it may be something in the interactions with the IDE.  As an additional
data point, since 1997 I've only had one corrupted stack with MC, and in all
cases where a save was terminated (fatal error elsewhere in the system,
power outage, me doing something stupid) there was a "~" copy to work from.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

This "~" file is starting to take on mythic proportions for me. I've 
had stacks get corrupted several times, and not once have I been able 
to see a "~" backup file.
continuing that thought...

So is there, or should there be a bugzilla bug for "stacks being 
corrupted with no ~ backup stack existing for recovery"?

Chipp's revArchive pluging is saving my A%% again.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 23, 2003, at 6:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Is there a copy of the stack in the same directory with a tidle after 
its
name? (e.g., MtStack.rv~)   if so, that's a backup created bythe 
engine as a
temp file when doing saves -- if you have such a file you should be 
able to
just remove the tilde and get back to work.
This "~" file is starting to take on mythic proportions for me. I've 
had stacks get corrupted several times, and not once have I been able 
to see a "~" backup file.

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Re: corrupted stack

[Richard Gaskin]

John mnic wrote:

> There was a problem opening that stack.
> file is not a stack
> 
> I am not able to go to the stack.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to retrieve my data lost in this
> stack?

Is there a copy of the stack in the same directory with a tidle after its
name? (e.g., MtStack.rv~)   if so, that's a backup created bythe engine as a
temp file when doing saves -- if you have such a file you should be able to
just remove the tilde and get back to work.
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Re: Corrupted stack

[miscdas]

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Hello, 

I tryed to open a Revolution Stack with BBEdit Lite. Then, when I want to 
open this stack with Revolution, I have the message : this is a corrupted 
stack file. 

Is there a possibility to repair corrupted stack file ? 

Thank you. 

Edouard 

==
Edouard, 

You OF COURSE made a copy of the stack file, then tried to open teh copy 
with BBEdit lite, R-I-G-H-T ? So, just delete the corrupted one and use the 
original! 

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Re: Corrupted stack

[Jim Hurley]

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:08:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corrupted stack
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Pierre Sahores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:06, Jim Hurley wrote:
 > [snip]
 >
 > 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.
 If this occurs again, try always (from the message
 box) "set the visible
 of window #stack xxx to true" before any thing else.
And also try from the message box :
  set the topLeft of stack "Foobar" to 100,100
just in case it got sent somewhere off-screen.
Jan Schenkel.

Jan and Pierre,

You were both on the right track and thank you for the suggestions.

It turned out to be quite tricky.

I tried to open the file once again, and once again there was no 
visible stack. It wasn't even listed in the Window pull down menu. 
But this time it was the first stack I tried to open and lo and 
behold, I noticed that there was *another* stack and it was named 
"Utilities". Where in the world did that come from?

So I went to the Application browser and the property inspector and 
found that the stack Utilities had a width of 20 pixels and a height 
of 20 pixels. And the property inspector wouldn't allow me to 
increase these values. My stack had changed its name and permanently 
shrunk.

Well, to make a long story short (actually too late for that) I 
discovered that I had originally been attempting to give a pull down 
menu (named Utilities) an icon. Apparently I had selected the *stack* 
and not the Utilities *button*. I had renamed the stack "Utilities", 
and given it a 20x20 icon. So, of course, my stack disappeared, or 
rather shrank to a tiny icon and I just didn't see it. Furthermore 
when I tried to open it in RR 1..1 I got a message: "stack 
corrupted," and I assumed the  worst.

(I know there is a value to giving the stack and the file different 
names, but this often trips me up. I was opening a file  named 
"Optics" and getting a stack name "Utilities.")

Well, to make a long story story (again) I set the stack icon to 0 
and renamed the stack, and so all is now well. Whew!

Jim
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Re: Corrupted stack

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Pierre Sahores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:06, Jim Hurley wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> If this occurs again, try always (from the message
> box) "set the visible
> of window #stack xxx to true" before any thing else.
> 

And also try from the message box :
  set the topLeft of stack "Foobar" to 100,100
just in case it got sent somewhere off-screen.

Jan Schenkel.

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Re: Corrupted stack

[Pierre Sahores]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:06, Jim Hurley wrote:
> >__--
> >
> >Message: 9
> >Subject: Re: Corrupted stack
> >From: Pierre Sahores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Organization:
> >Date: 22 Jul 2003 23:43:05 +0200
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >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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> 
> 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. 

If this occurs again, try always (from the message box) "set the visible
of window #stack xxx to true" before any thing else.


> 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.
> 
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Re: Corrupted stack

[Jim Hurley]

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Message: 9
Subject: Re: Corrupted stack
From: Pierre Sahores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization:
Date: 22 Jul 2003 23:43:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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,

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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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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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Re: Corrupted stack

[Pierre Sahores]

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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