No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I didn't delete what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange that this error message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not doing anything that I haven't been doing for the last 6 months.
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you deleted > the old one? If so, what's in it? > > I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one that > Julia's looking at. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using daily since >> February) I received this error message : >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format: >> If you have a history file left over from an older version of Julia, >> try renaming or deleting it. >> Invalid character: '#' at line 465034 >> in error at error.jl:22 >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history format") suggested >> deleting >> the julia_history file. I tried this, and it did not work. Next I >> uninstalled Julia and re-installed the latest (0.4.6) version. The error >> message is the same. >> >> Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 Enterprise. >> >> Thanks >> >> Andy >> >> >
