RE: Corrupted Files
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- Subject: [mg35248] RE: Corrupted Files
- From: "DrBob" <majort at cox-internet.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
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As I'm editing the file, I get a Beep and a message saying, "There appears to be an error in the file named below. You should close it without saving, then use the Open Special command to open it using the Ignore File Outline Cache option. File name: ..." When I follow those instructions, I get an error message (at Open Special) saying "There was a syntax error in the file being read. This indicates that the file has become corrupted, or was generated incorrectly. If you click OK, the file will be opened as a plain text file, with the position of the syntax error selected. If you are able to fix the error, save the file and open it again." The file format isn't documented (so far as I know), so there's basically no hope of fixing the error. I've seen the file format enough times to have a clue or two, but that's it. Anyway, I've never successfully rescued a file from this. I used to have this problem once a week or so in version 4.0, but never in 4.1 except once when opening a file from 4.0 days that may have been corrupted then. I've had this problem twice, maybe three times already today, in about three hours total work with the new version. I'm running Windows XP Home. The old problems with 4.0 were under Windows 2000, but I've used 4.1 under both operating systems without problems. Bobby Treat -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Christensen [mailto:steve at smc.vnet.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg35248] Re: Corrupted Files This is very vague - corrupt how? On what sort of system running what OS? How does it appear? Steve Christensen Moderator > From majort at cox-internet.com Wed Jul 3 00:00:46 2002 > From: "DrBob" <majort at cox-internet.com> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg35248] Corrupted Files > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:54:57 -0500 > > Danger, Will Robinson, danger, danger! > > Don't start depending on version 4.2 yet -- it corrupts files. Version > 4.0 was bad about that, but not THIS bad. > > Version 4.1 was almost entirely innocent of that particular problem. > > I'll be uninstalling this thing immediately. > > Bobby > > > Dr. Bobby Treat > Survey Sampling: http://www.bus.utexas.edu/courses/msis/sta376/ > OR Models: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~treatb/ > Austin INFORMS: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~informs/ > > > > >