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From: mckay@ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D. McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Unexpected error 5455 occured, Sorry?!?!?
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.204918.24815@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 20:49:18 GMT
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I have a 800K+ stack which have been adding cards to over a period of 
time.  It acts as a sort of log file.

I tried using "find" to search through it today and got a dialog bix which 
read:

         Unexpected error #5455 occured.

It had just one button labeled, "sorry".  Clicking on it *exits* from 
HyperCard.

I've flipped through some of the cards in the stack and they look OK.

Questions:

     1) Can this problem be fixed?  I've replaced HyperCard itself from 
backup, but I'd like to recover as much of the data in this stack as I can 
as I don't know how long ago it was damaged and my most recent backup 
seems to have the same problems.

     2) How I can check to find out that a stack is damaged before I
overwrite a backup of the stack?

-- Dwight D. McKay, Purdue University, Engineering Computer Network
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