Re: Help, I have Syntax Errors in allmost all files
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- Subject: [mg14044] Re: Help, I have Syntax Errors in allmost all files
- From: dreissNOSPAM at nospam.earthlink.net (David Reiss)
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 03:50:27 -0400
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Take a look at the package Corruption.m located at, ftp://ftp.wolfram.com/pub/outgoing/Support/Corruption.m It is a work in progress by WRI, and may help you in your darkest hour. --David In article <6tp3u2$347 at smc.vnet.net>, bcash at javanet.com (Bill) wrote: > Hi all, > What misery has befallen me, whoa is me. I accidently deleted a > directory with quite a few notebooks in it. No problem I thought, just > get out the trusty Norton undelete program. It did work like a charm > and "recovered" all of my notebooks. My problem now is that over half > of the notebooks that I open have syntax errors in them. > The exact message that I get is "There was a syntax error in the file > being read. This indicates that the file has become corrupted, or was > generated incorrectly......." The next message that I get tells me > that there was a syntax error on line so and so and tells me that "the > error was a syntax error on line % Id in the file %s. The error was > %s." Is Mathematica telling me a specific error or referring to a > previous output? Sometimes the file opens with the affected part > highlighted. But I don't know the syntax well enough to spot an error. > > I suspect that the recovery program probably inserted the same > character in all the files. I think that if I poke around in them a > bit I can find something common to all, but what to look for and more > importantly with what text editor? I have about 60 files that I would > like to recover. Any suggestions where I should start or what I ought > to be looking for? > > Thanks for "listening" to me and even greater thanks for any help you > can offer. > > > Bill -- David Reiss dreissNOSPAM at nospam.earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~dreiss To send personal email, remove the words "nospam" and "NOSPAM" from the email address