fang@dukempd.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) (12/30/88)
I just found out that a chapter of my thesis writen with FullWrite caused system bomb. After I opened the file, FullWrite would say 'Updating..' then Error ID=25 came out. I checked that ID=25 is 'out of memory'. That can not be true, since the file is only 35 page long and our mac has 5MB ram. I used MacTools to verify the file. MacTools said that the file was ok. The bomb hit me very hard. My backup on a floppy disk shows the same bomb. I have put a lot modifications on the chapter since last tape backup. Opening other FW files is still ok. Has anyone had experiences in recoverying crashed FW documents? I am in the middle of finishing up my thesis, any help is desperately sought and greatly appreciated.
jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) (01/01/89)
In article <765@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> fang@dukempd.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes: > I just found out that a chapter of my thesis writen with FullWrite >caused system bomb. After I opened the file, FullWrite would say 'Updating..' >then Error ID=25 came out. I checked that ID=25 is 'out of memory'. That can >not be true, since the file is only 35 page long and our mac has 5MB ram. I >used MacTools to verify the file. MacTools said that the file was ok. I'm sorry I can't help you, but things like this have happened to me too. Usually FullWrite does something like this when I use the indexing. Just typing normal text and adding a few sidebars seems to be ok. Sometimes I get a document that seems to be ok until I try to open a footnote. The wrong text appears and the program usually crashes soon after that. Aston Tate really needs to exterminate those bugs or write an interactive program for rescuing FW documents. I could probably live with occasional lost footnotes or index entries. FW is great, but much too unreliable. _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ | Juri Munkki jmunkki@hut.fi jmunkki@fingate.bitnet I Want Ne | | Helsinki University of Technology Computing Centre My Own XT | ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~