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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Hypercard stack structure? Corrupted Stack.
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Date: 5 Oct 89 16:14:38 GMT
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In article <35236@apple.Apple.COM>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes...
[discussion of hypercard corruption]
> 
>When you get an error message like the one mentioned, you are
>temporarily out of luck.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that we
>are working on a utility that we hope to release someday that will fix
>corrupted stacks.  In the meantime, you can use FEdit or some other disk
>editor to see the actual text stored in fields.


Well, I got a similar message to the one mentioned above in a month old
project.  But I can still open a very recent backup, which may or may not be
corrupted (I've been crashing all along during my development, since I'm
beta-ing a product which works with HC, and my project is not always stable).

The $64,000 question is: if I copy all the objects from my old (corrupted)
stack to a new one, and I copy the background and stack scripts, will that give
me a new, uncorrupted stack?    (I know I could copy all the scripts of the
buttons, but talk about a pain...)

Any info _very_ much appreciated.

Robert

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