Re: Help please!
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- Subject: [mg22977] Re: [mg22903] Help please!
- From: "Jordan Rosenthal" <jr at ece.gatech.edu>
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:44:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
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Hi, This same problem happened to me a few days ago and it happened exactly as Mark described it. Frustrated, I wound up just retyping the notebook which was only a few pages. Anyway, I am just writing this message to say that the problem was not something particular to Mark's machine and that I am also interested in how this happens. Side note: I've seen a bunch of posts and even read a FAQ entry about corrupted notebooks. What causes this? In most software, it would be a grievous bug if the software causes its files to be corrupted every now and then, yet with Mathematica it seems like something people just tolerate. Is there something about the way the Mathematica system works that makes it prone to such problems? Why is something that happens so often? Thanks, Jordan "Tomas Garza" <tgarza at mail.internet.com.mx> wrote in message news:8ck1hu$g7l at smc.vnet.net... > Mark S-N [mailto:ms-n at mail.com] wrote: > > > I am rather new to Mathematica and I just ran into an extremely > > frustrating problem. > > > > I spent hours working on a notebook. Then, I try to open it and I'm told > > there are problems so I should "Special" open it. That I do, only to be > > told that there is a strange error in a part of the code which reads: > > ShowAutoStyles->True]}], > > ShowAutoStyles->False]}], > > > > So I take the last line out and resave...BIG mistake. Now I can only > > open the .nb file as ASCII. I replace the line I removed. Same thing. > > How do I get my notebook back? > > Perhaps you could give us more detail as to what you did when you first > closed your notebook. Did you simply just Save with some filename? Does the > problem occur with every notebook you try to save and open again? Can you > just try a simple experiment like writing a single line in a new notebook, > saving it, closing and open back? > > Tomas Garza > Mexico City > >