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Re: Corrupted notebook

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  • Subject: [mg21892] Re: Corrupted notebook
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:54:49 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <86abfm$8jn@smc.vnet.net>
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Julio,

Two precautions - in addition to keeping backups:

1) Mathematica, by default, saves material in an short form to reduce disk
space needed. To use the longer and more secure method (which does not
reduce box structures to linear form) enter the following

SetOptions[$FrontEnd, PrivateNotebookOptions -> {"ShortBoxForm" -> False}]

The change can also be made via the Option Inspector.

2) The utility "Flashback" (Aladdin Systems
http://www.aladdinsys.com/flashback/index.html ) guards against loss due to
corruption and deletion.

--
Allan
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<jvera at adinet.com.uy> wrote in message news:86abfm$8jn at smc.vnet.net...
> Dear members,
>
> A notebook of mine, containing painfully gathered
> work of mine, is now corrupted.
>
> I browsed through MathGroup archives and found
> Corruption.m . I successfully installed and ran it,
> using a command that started writing my file cell
> by cell to a new notebook, named Untitled-2.
>
> This process went on and on, for more than 12
> hours. (Yes, I know, my processor is slow, with a
> fast one it would have been 3 or 4 hours). I went
> to bed and my PC went on working.
>
> In the morning I went directly to the machine,
> anxious to see my brand new corrected file.
>
> I only found the kernel opened. The 2 notebooks
> that were running (Untitled-1 performing the
> Corruption.m tasks, and Untitled-2) were now closed.
>
> What happened to the very long list of cells that
> were written to Untitled-2? Are they lost, or lying
> somewhere in the kernel? I am affraid to close it,
> since I could lose the information.
>
> I had seen postings in MathGroup about corrupted
> files, but, as it often happens, did not think it
> would occur to me. In my study fo related postings
> in MathGroup, I saw about an interesting way of
> doing a backup copy, by changing some kernel general
> setting that eliminates all of the outputs. I did
> not find out how does it work yet, though.
>
> I am really scared. Maybe I could get some help on
> the issue, as I have done previously. This list is
> very useful.
>
> I also would be glad to know of anything like an online
> support for Mathematica users, where one could solve
> emergencies like this one. The WRI pages where I got the
> Corruption.m application gave no tips about the way the
> package was going to work.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Julio Vera
> Alenar SA
> Uruguay
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>



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