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From: ctice@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard Corruption Problem
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.104220.11072@pbs.org>
Date: 19 Dec 90 15:42:20 GMT
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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Hi!  I've got a problem, and I was wondering if anyone out there could help
me.  I have been working on a small but complicated hypercard stack for
several weeks.  It has four cards using one background.  Yesterday when I
closed the stack, it seemed to be working just fine.  Sometime between
yesterday and today my stack seems to have become corrupted.  I can open the
stack, and I can access the first and last cards, but when I try to access the
two middle cards (the ones with most of my work!), I get an error dialogue box
stating "Unable to read card or background id 2996", and when I click on the OK
button it closes the stack.  Does anyone know how I can either un-corrupt my
stack (compacting gets the same error message), or salvage all the scripts I
have on those cards?  Any help or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.  (By the
way, 2996 is NOT the background id number, nor is it the card id number for the
second card.  Hypercard cannot tell me what the card id number for the third
card is...)

						-- Caroline Tice