macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) (03/30/91)
Hi! We're using Hypercard 2.0 with system 6.0.7 to maintain a chemical inventory. It has about 2000 cards and is a little bigger than 1 MB. Recently, when trying to execute a print report we received the message: Unexpected error 5454, after which Hypercard quit. The same thing happened when I tried to compact the stack. Fortunately, we had a backup of an earlier version of the stack which works correctly, so no great loss. I'm wondering, though, if anyone is familiar with this cryptic error message. There's no mention of it in the big Hypercard 2.0 book I have. I also saw some funny behavior when trying to compact the corrupt stack (after 3 tries it got 160 KB larger and the free space grew from 5K to 16K). Could this be a disk-related error or is it due to the large size of the stack? I'd appreciate any answers, which if necessary I will summarize to the group. Thanks. Kurtis MacFerrin macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu
Peter_Francis@mindlink.UUCP (Peter Francis) (03/30/91)
I have encountered this error which was generated after some problem with an XCMD (either MakeDir which creates a folder, or FullSort which sorts several containers in according to the results of a single container.) Like you my stack was corrupted and I had to continue from a backup version. This was in HC 1.2. Also in HC 1.2 I had a stack which imported ascii code, modified it, then exported it to a new file. This stack became very large and wouldn't compact. I solved this problem by writing "domenu compact stack" at several points during the execution of its functions.
huff@stolaf.edu (04/02/91)
In article <6216@husc6.harvard.edu> macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) writes: >the free space grew from 5K to 16K). Could this be a disk-related error or is >it due to the large size of the stack? I'd appreciate any answers, which if I had a 5454 error wich was related to about 3 cards dissapearing from the stack, without all the cards being renumbered. When trying to go to one of these cards, the 5454 error would occur. My stack was relatively small (about 250 cards), so I don't think size mattered. I now have this in the stack script on startUp doMenu "Save a Copy..." end startup To make sure I get regular backups. Anybody with a book out there that describes 5454? -Chuck