Re: seems I broke the FE of V7
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- Subject: [mg100149] Re: [mg100110] seems I broke the FE of V7
- From: Indivisible <congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
Hello John: Nope. I reboot-ed Mathematica and the OS several times. When I tried to backup all my files since V7 was installed, some .nb files could not be copied. XP xcopy complained that they were "invalid directories" and that I should "run chkdsk". So something bad happened at some point. No evidence Mathematica caused this, but the usual suspects are *not* installed (i.e. VisStudio, Office, VPN S/W etc.). Also, I found out the V7.0.1 link they sent to me [some weeks ago] was stale so I requested a refresh. Regards.. Roger Williams Franklin Laboratory --- On Mon, 5/25/09, John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com> wrote: From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com> Subject: [mg100149] Re: [mg100110] seems I broke the FE of V7 To: congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com Cc: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 10:11 AM I'd definitely recommend upgrading to 7.0.1 regardless. Did the problem go away when you restart Mathematica? A difficult-to-reproduce problem similar to this was reported in 7.0.0 which only lasted until you restarted the session. I don't recall the same problem having been reported against 7.0.1, although I wouldn't swear to it. I wouldn't expect the loading of a Demonstrations notebook to cause any problems. Sincerely, John Fultz User Interface Group jfultz at wolfram.com congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com wrote: > Hello UG: > > I was using my XP based V7 system just fine until an hour ago or so. > Now all notebooks are unformatted. When I give a simple string "2+2", > then Ctrl-Enter does not evaluate it. The interface and the menus look > OK, but then I noticed that Format>>Style shows no styles, only a menu > separator and then "Other". > > I can guess that no cells are input cells, so they cannot be > evaluated. But how could I have blown all my styles away. > > The only "suspicious" thing that happened is that I downloaded a > Demostrations source package (about Planck's constant I think). It > evaluated and ran OK. I used help and ran some simple evals after the > Demonstration. > > Any helpful thoughts? Maybe I have to go to 7.0.1 now. > > TIA. > > Regards.. > > Roger Williams > Franklin Laboratory >