On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
I've just looked at the man page for 'locate', and it says:
Another terminal 'thang' is mdfind, such as (mdfind ".rev~"):
Macintosh:~ jimsims$ mdfind ".rev~"
/Users/jimsims/Library/Mail/pop-s...@mail.ezpzapps.com/INBOX.mbox/
Messages/404711
Ben Rubinstein wrote:
More directly relevant to Scott's problem; I don't know what it means
when Spotlight displays a dotted line icon either. An hypothesis, since
Spotlight (even when just searching for filenames not content) searches
in its database rather than in the file system, would be
Kay C Lan wrote:
Whilst I wouldn't argue against the use of TimeMachine, for those who have
it, I find GLX2's Archive feature a swifter solution for such Rev specific
problems.
And (not that this helps Scott now) I have a button on my personal toolbar
that I use to save instead of the standard
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
> Last time I upgraded my system, I got an extra hard drive so I could use
> TimeMachine for just these kinds of circumstances. It has saved my butt
> several times already!
>
Whilst I wouldn't argue against the use of TimeMachine, for those w
On Feb 1, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
The
way I can find the temp files is by using the Finder's search
facility.
[ BTW, the only reason I even know about the temp files is years ago
before
there even was Revolution and OS X, I was able to recover a MetaCard
project
that mys
On Feb 1, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Thanks Jacque. Once again, there are NO files visible in the
Finder. The
way I can find the temp files is by using the Finder's search
facility. In
the results of the Search window, the file names are shown, along
with the
dotted-line icons
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> If you see a dimmed icon in the Finder called "test.rev~" you should be
> able to determine the file path either by checking the directory
> drop-down menu in the Finder window, or by assuming it is in the same
> folder as the original "test.rev" stack. Then in th
Scott Rossi wrote:
When something goes wrong while saving a stack, Rev creates a backup file
with the hope being one can recover work from the backup. I think these are
the same files files, but when a save executes successfully, something is
done to them so they don't show up normally in the
Recently, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
> In SuperCard you can open the file in a text editor or extract the
> text with a read from file command. It will be garbled, but you can
> reverse engineer it cause the object names and scripts are all
> there. Or does Rev protect the file contents better (ar
In SuperCard you can open the file in a text editor or extract the
text with a read from file command. It will be garbled, but you can
reverse engineer it cause the object names and scripts are all
there. Or does Rev protect the file contents better (are they in
byte code?
Randall
On F
Recently, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> Anyone know if it's possible to recover a stack from a (what I think is a)
>> temp file?
>>
>> On OS X, doing a search for a file that has the name of a stack I'm
>> currently working on yields several files named myFile.rev~ which I assume
>> are temp files cre
1. Command-F brings up a find application.
2. Use the first drop-down menu to select "Name".
3. Use the second drop-down menu to select "ends with".
4. Enter ".rev~" (without the quotes) into the text field.
5. All the RR temp files littering your hard drives will now be listed.
6. Single-clic
> Anyone know if it's possible to recover a stack from a (what I think is a)
> temp file?
>
> On OS X, doing a search for a file that has the name of a stack I'm
> currently working on yields several files named myFile.rev~ which I assume
> are temp files created during each save of the stack. Unf
Hi List:
Anyone know if it's possible to recover a stack from a (what I think is a)
temp file?
On OS X, doing a search for a file that has the name of a stack I'm
currently working on yields several files named myFile.rev~ which I assume
are temp files created during each save of the stack. Unfo
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