Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg38101] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: Tom Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:31:48 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello, You wrote "...What happens is that if you select a several cells or a cell group and past into another notebook you get a messy expression contained in a single cell from which it does not appear possible to easily recover the original cells..." What a coincidence! Or maybe not :-( I logged a telephone support call to WRI on this very matter the day after I updated to OS10.2.2. Is that OS upgrade involved? Hard to tell, because the symptom appeared the day AFTER. Did I go a whole day without copying cells? In my case, the symptom extended to copying even one entire cell, to the same or a different notebook. It stopped me in my tracks. At WRI's suggestion, I cleared the Front End cache. No help. Then I uninstalled Mathematica 4.2 (on Mac, simply drag the application to the trash), restarted, and then reinstalled Mathematica 4.2 and pasted my init files back in. I was up to full speed in 5 minutes (40 minutes after the first symptom.) The symptom is gone and has not returned. As I told WRI, I don't understand, but I am happy that that AWFUL copy bug is gone! Tom Burton