Re: HELP! I'm gonna go postal...
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- Subject: [mg14910] Re: HELP! I'm gonna go postal...
- From: "Todd K. Moyer" <moyer at teleport.nospam.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:48:30 -0500
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Peter, In the way of encouragement I had a similar experience a few days ago. I was not willing to go back and try to reproduce my work the hard way, so I spent about 45 minutes looking at the .nb file, and comparing it to good files that load okay. I can't recall specifically what I had to do, but basically it involved using a text editor, and chopping out parts that Mathematica did not like (in my case, there was a particular cell that caused the problem; somehow it got corrupted while it was being evaluated and I tried to stop it, and I stupidly decided to save). I do remember that I had to paste on a "proper" ending to the file using a good notebook. If you look inside the .nb file, you can kind of tell that it is itself made of Mathematica expressions, and you can probably figure out how to patch it back up, if careful. You have to be very careful to get all the brackets and braces to match up, or Mathematica will gag, and in my case, open the notebook as a text file. There is also a warning in the header to delete a reference to a Cache ID, which appears early in the file; you'll undoubtedly see it inside the file. Todd Peter Jay Salzman wrote in message <73d3pi$iai at smc.vnet.net>... >I've been working on a project for over a week now, and I think it was >finished. All I had to do was check some numbers...I don't know >Mathematica very well, and this program took a heck of a lot of >effort... > >While in Mathematica, windoze froze--i quickly copied the nb file before >the blue window of death reared its ugly head. > >When I try to load the nb file now, Mathematica simply crashes. There's >data there, and it's still coherent (I peeked). My thesis advisor has >been waiting a very long time for these results, and I'm absolutely >sick about this. > >Does anyone know how to edit these things? Can someone PLEASE look at >this file and try to fix it for me? :-( > >Pete