[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Problem accessing stacks

GETTES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Michael R. Gettes) (06/05/89)

I am having  a bit of a MAJOR  problem accessing some stacks. I  have done all
the  checking for  viruses and  the disk  is clean.  I have  installed no  new
software as of late. Last week I  could access my address and datebook stacks,
now if I try and use them Hypercard (1.2.1) hangs and I am forced to reboot. I
have checked my backups, and the same  problem exists (I backed up just before
the weekend). I have lots of data in  these stacks I need to recover. I am not
pleased. I can FEDIT the files, but retrieving this information in this method
is not desirable. I really need some help with this -- Please send direct mail
or post to this list.

Michael R. Gettes, Princeton University, CIT

jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (06/07/89)

[HyperCard hangs when trying to open stacks]

Have you replaced your copy of HyperCard *and your Home stack*? A corrupted
copy of the application might cause these symptoms. It's less likely that a
bad Home stack would cause an actual hang, but it is possible.

If all else fails in the attempted recovery of a stack that contains
text you want to keep, try changing the stack's type signature from STAK
to TEXT and read it with a text editor.

jeanne a. e. devoto
jdevoto@apple.com

pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby) (06/07/89)

Michael, you want to try getting ahold of "Recover", a stack by Apple that
will recover (aptly named, eh?) cards from damaged stacks.  It's supposed to
be fairly successful.  I've not had the opportunity to use it yet.
  If you can't find it locally, mail me and I'll hex it up for you.
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GETTES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Michael R. Gettes) (06/07/89)

In article <32288@apple.Apple.COM>, jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes:

>[HyperCard hangs when trying to open stacks]
>
>Have you replaced your copy of HyperCard *and your Home stack*? A corrupted
>copy of the application might cause these symptoms. It's less likely that a
>bad Home stack would cause an actual hang, but it is possible.

I did neither. Nothing else has changed. I have triple checked this. I have
also gone through to see if any other stacks and programs on the system
are bad by using them -- all seems fine except for accessing ADDRESS
and DATEBOOK.

>
>If all else fails in the attempted recovery of a stack that contains
>text you want to keep, try changing the stack's type signature from STAK
>to TEXT and read it with a text editor.
>
>jeanne a. e. devoto
>jdevoto@apple.com

Hmmm. A rather unfriendly method, but effective. I guess I am stuck with this.
What would cause Hypercard to freak out like this on a Stack?
If there was some problem with the stack, should it not report it instead
of hang?

/mrg

kenk@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Ken Konecki) (06/07/89)

In article <808@orbit.UUCP> pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby) writes:
>you want to try getting ahold of "Recover", a stack by Apple that
>will recover (aptly named, eh?) cards from damaged stacks.  It's supposed to
>be fairly successful.  I've not had the opportunity to use it yet.
>  If you can't find it locally, mail me and I'll hex it up for you.

Could you post that sucker? I (and I'm sure lots of others) am greatly
interested in it, and since our mailer has been broken for the last 5
months (everything bounces) I can't ask you to mail it to me. 

Thanks a billion,
    -Ken K
-- 
Ken Konecki
"Eat well, stay fit, and die anyway"
e-mail:kenk@tellab5.UUCP    -or-    ...!uunet!tellab5!kenk	
U.S. Mail: 1271 Portchester Circle, Carol Stream, IL 60188

pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby) (06/09/89)

I hope nobody damages me for doing this, but the StuffIt'ed Recover stack is
only about 6K.  Soooo, turn your capture buffer on now, or hit that Kill
key...
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Again, apologies for posting this mid-thread.  My access to mac.binaries
submission central is tenuous at best, methinks.

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Ben.Dover@f823.n102.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ben Dover) (06/11/89)

I have recovered a stack using the DeleteRes XCMD.  The resource fork of a 
stack can get damaged and make the stack unopenable.  Delete the resource
fork, open the stack (avoiding all the messages about missing XCMDs), save 
a copy of the stack and reinstall the XCMDs used into the new copy of the
stack (I hope you documented all the XCMDs you used!).  I believe the
DeleteRes XCMD can be found on the Dartmouth XCMD/XFCN disks.


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