Re: Odd glitch opening Mathematica notebook on a Mac
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- From: dr DanW <dmaxwarren at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Completely speculation on my part, but maybe some of your older notebooks are using an external stylesheet that is no longer on your system.
One thing I do when I am working with old, legacy notebooks is drag them into TextWrangler, delete everything outside Notebook[{...}] and all the options in Notebook. This makes sure that I am not trying to load in any cached data or old notebook options, including stylesheets. Usually, this clears up any weirdness like you are describing.
This is particularly useful when I am opening old .MA files (yes, I still have some). After the automatic conversion to .nb, the notebook displays in a really tiny font. I still don't know why, but cleaning out the cache and option information in the .nb, restarting Mathematica (again, don't know why), and re-opening the file fixes this.
Daniel