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Re: Viewing .mx files (Question)

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• Subject: [mg103033] Re: Viewing .mx files (Question)
• From: magma <maderri2 at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:01:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 4, 1:56 am, "Scot Martin" <smar... at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> OK, I will reply. On the one hand, .mx is great for saving big items that=
 I
> need access to again later, and I use it a lot. Unfortunately, these .mx
> files seem to get corrupted very easily and for reasons that I don't know
> about, e.g., copying from Windows XP on my laptop to Windows XP on my
> desktop with a network hard drive. Then I have to re-run all of the
> Mathematica programs to regenerate the .mx files. The documentation says
> that .mx are "platform dependent", but from my perspective I am using
> Mathematica in a Windows XP environment in both situations, e.g., from my
> perspective, it's the same platform. Since I have a rather large number o=
f
> .mx files that I call upon generated by multiple notebooks, remaking the =
.mx
> files is an unfortunate time sink for me.

This is very interesting, and certainly something that should be
solved by WRI, but the main question of this thread still is: how do
we make .mx files readable?

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  • Re: Viewing .mx files (Question)
    • From: Harutyun Amirjanyan <amirjanyan@gmail.com>