Re: Corrupted Files
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg35254] Re: Corrupted Files
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 02:18:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Bobby, Setting ShortBoxForm ->False in the option inspector with Global scope is reputed to give a more robust behaviour. In addtion, I use the utility FlashBack from AladdinSystems to save versions of notebooks. -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "DrBob" <majort at cox-internet.com> wrote in message news:afuh2d$rsn$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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: [mg35254] 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: [mg35254] 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > >