Thanks for your interest and suggestions, and my apologies to all who were perplexed. When far enough away from my computer I realized the problem: the stack I was copying was not the stack I was opening. The older and newer versions, with the same name, were stored in two different folders, both of whose contents were listed in "the stackfiles" of a stackinuse. So when my script called for the file by its short name, it got the newer one, but when I went to make a copy I looked in the folder containing the older one.
I'll observe a longer cooling off period next time before accusing my computer of bizarre behavior. David Epstein > Send metacard mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of metacard digest..." > > > This is the Metacard mailing list. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the original > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 2. Re: Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the > original (Richard Gaskin) > 3. Bizarre 2: On XP answer file command sometimes hangs (Dave Cragg) > 4. Re: Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the > original (Ray Horsley) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:45:37 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the original > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have a stack that exhibits the following behavior, which I have never > encountered before and do not understand. > > The currently saved version of this stack includes a number of obvious changes > made since a previously saved version. When I make a copy of this revised > version, the COPY does not reflect those changes. In other words, I choose > "File/Duplicate" in the Mac OS9 finder, or I drag the file to another server, > but instead of getting the copy I expect I get a copy of a prior version of my > file. The original remains the correct, "revised" version, but I can't make an > accurate, up to date copy of it. > > Has anyone experienced this, or does anyone understand what might be happening? > > David Epstein > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:53:49 -0700 > From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the > original > To: Discussions on Metacard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a stack that exhibits the following behavior, which I have never > encountered before and do not understand. > > > > The currently saved version of this stack includes a number of obvious changes > made since a previously saved version. When I make a copy of this revised > version, the COPY does not reflect those changes. In other words, I choose > "File/Duplicate" in the Mac OS9 finder, or I drag the file to another server, > but instead of getting the copy I expect I get a copy of a prior version of my > file. The original remains the correct, "revised" version, but I can't make an > accurate, up to date copy of it. > > > > Has anyone experienced this, or does anyone understand what might be > happening? > > Did you save you changes before copying? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > ___________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:44:28 +0100 > From: Dave Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bizarre 2: On XP answer file command sometimes hangs > To: Discussions on Metacard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > I've no answer for David Epstein's problem, but I've encountered a > weird one of my own. > > Om XP (SP1), I have a simple utility tool made from the 2.5 engine > named "makeConfig_2.exe". There is a button on the screen whose script > has an "answer file" command in the first line of the mouseUp handler. > I've been using it on and off for a year with no problems until > yesterday. When I clicked on the button, the app hung before the > Windows file selection dialog opened. It needed the Task Manager to > close out. After much pulling of hair, I discovered that if I changed > the exe name (for example to "makeConfig.exe") it worked. But if I > changed it back again, it didn't. > > During the hair-pulling, I was able to confirm the following: > > -- the original stack worked fine from the IDE. > -- another exe which was working fine, displayed the same problem > when renamed to "makeConfig_2.exe" > -- renaming the original problem "makeConfig_2.exe" to anything else > (makeConfi_2.exe, pie.exe, etc.) would make the problem go away. > -- When booted up from NT 4 from a separate drive on the same machine, > it works. > > Norton AntiVirus shows the system to be clean. > No major changes to the machine recently (except for network > reconfiguration) > Later in the day, the SP2 update failed on the same machine. (might > indicate a problem) > > Any similar experiences or thoughts?? > > 1-- Is "makeConfig_2.exe" a well-known no-no for file naming? > 2-- Time to do a complete re-install on this machine? > 3-- The house is haunted? > > Before 2 though, I'd feel better if I knew what was going on. > > Cheers > Dave > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:05:20 -0400 > From: Ray Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bizarre: copy of stack is a prior version of the > original > To: Discussions on Metacard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Could this be related to a rebuilding the desktop thing on your Mac OS9? > > On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 11:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a stack that exhibits the following behavior, which I have > > never encountered before and do not understand. > > > > The currently saved version of this stack includes a number of obvious > > changes made since a previously saved version. When I make a copy of > > this revised version, the COPY does not reflect those changes. In > > other words, I choose "File/Duplicate" in the Mac OS9 finder, or I > > drag the file to another server, but instead of getting the copy I > > expect I get a copy of a prior version of my file. The original > > remains the correct, "revised" version, but I can't make an accurate, > > up to date copy of it. > > > > Has anyone experienced this, or does anyone understand what might be > > happening? > > > > David Epstein > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > metacard mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > > > End of metacard Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1 > *************************************** _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
