Re: PowerBook Woes
- Subject: [mg3044] Re: PowerBook Woes
- From: purcell at bonnie.drea.dnd.ca ("Chris Purcell")
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:52:20 -0600
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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On a Mac there is no .mb file, that stuff is in the resource fork. But your suggestion worked - I recovered my crashed notebook by using "Open Special", and the analgous "Ignore binary data in resource fork". Thanks. > >I have a Powerbook 540c, and I have seen problems after you plug in the >supply. I guess the right thing to do is to plug in the Powerbook to the >supply, then the supply to the main. It went wrong when I did the thing >the other way. I was going to look at the manual but I couldn't find it, >which was why I was abandoning the last posting. > >I run mathematica on a Sun workstation, so I am not sure if this will >help. I suspect what's wrong lies in the .mb rather than the .ma file >(do you have these?). I have the options of deleting the .mb file, or >using 'Open special...' to ignore the .mb file. This gets rid of the >cached graphics and stuff like that. If you haven't any graphics on your >first page, then the thing might load, but crash when you scroll down >the document because it has found a duff bit of cached graphics. Chuck >the lot away (or just rename it) and mathematica should recalculate the lot. > --- Dr. Christopher J. Purcell Group Leader,Transducers Defence Research Establishment Atlantic 9 Grove St. Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y3Z7 Tel: 902-426-3100 ext 389 FAX: 902-426-9654 E-mail:purcell at drea.dnd.ca