Re: CORRUPTED NOTEBOOKS
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- Subject: [mg21843] Re: CORRUPTED NOTEBOOKS
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevinmccann at home.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:53:26 -0500 (EST)
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Perhaps automatic backup would work, but what if you are saving a corrupted NB on top of a good one? How do you work this one? I notice that as a NB is being saved in Mathematica 4, there is a preliminary "check" that is done. Does this look for corruption or what? Kevin "Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message news:871102$f8s$3 at dragonfly.wolfram.com... > One thing sorely lacking in Mathematica would considerably ameliorate > the corruption problem: automatic backups of notebooks. > > Blimbaum Jerry DLPC wrote: > > > > Question about Corrupted notebooks has been asked recently. But > > could someone explain why it happens in the first place? > > > > I have had 3 or 4 noteboooks suddenly go 'corrupted' and I could > > swear that I didnt do anything wrong except try to save the file or > > something like that. I didnt do anything out of the ordinary. I have > > learned the hard way and now make a back up copy of every 10 minutes or so > > of what I'm doing because I'm expecting this 'corrupt' problem to occur any > > time and ruin all the work I've done. > > > > Or is this 'corruption' problem something that the Mathematica > > people should be fixing? > > > > thanks. jerry blimbaum NSWC Panama City, Fl > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H) > Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > Amherst, MA 01003-4515 > > >