Imagine, it is 11:30PM and long at last, the Director movie I'm been building for a week is finally complete. I sit back, and appreciate my work. In an attempt to add finality to the project, I combine all the files (ie images, external casts, etc) into a single directory. It just wouldn't do to keep it scattered across the desktop. After organizing the movie contents into a folder, I then start deleting extraneous files. Naturally, this late into the evening, the first thing I delete is the folder containing the recently completed movie and its linked images, cast, etc. As for the Recycle Bin, I had it set to "Advance Straight to Hard Drive Hell". Now, for the lingo guru, here is the challenge. I recovered the Director movies to a partitioned drive, and was rather pleased with the results. >From the first location before the move, and the second after the movie, I recovered two copies of the same movie. c:\windows\desktop\Speech1.dir --before move c:\windows\desktop\directory xyz\Speech1.dir --after move Now, for the fun part! I did some basic comparisons on the files and found that of the15k lines of text (In ASCII with word wrap), only the range from 13455 to 14179 register a difference! Zealously, I've spent the day trying to canibalize a working file, but with absolute zero success. I've eyeballed the ASCII and it appears to be information contained in every Director file I've looked at. ie. It has font mapping, Macromedia copyright information, etc. It appears to be standardized, hence, I am now cutting and pasting between one unscathed Director file, and the two corrupted files. (With a Hex editor, not Notepad, Grin) The grand challenge is, Does anyone know at what hexadecimal range this information begins, or more likely, what ASCII characters denote its start? Second prize, has anyone fixed a corrupted Director file, or anything of the like? Cheers, Shaun Tonstad [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
