On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:28:48 -0500, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
4) When I tried to save "home" stack in MC IDE created with
"metacard_setup" I got "can't open stack backup file" error. Recently
I'm getting such error from time to time in my version of MC IDE as
well, so it may have something with my computer configuration (I still
have panther on this particular computer). Just curious if anybody saw
such error recently. In my case, second attempt to save is always
successful but after the error I usually see renamed copy of
"mctools.mc" stack in the root folder and the filename is either
arbitrary letter "c" or "f" etc or the digit "0" or "9", or "7" etc.
It looks almost like new engine bug where engine can't create "~" +
filename BackUp of opened stack in MC IDE.
This is almost always computer-related, and the error comes from the
engine when it can't write a file to your hard drive for some reason.
If
the second attempt always works, you may have an older backup file
still
on disk with the same name the engine wants to use for the backup. Look
in your stack's folder location for any old stacks that look like
incomplete backup files (for example, any stacks with a tilde in the
name.) Permissions can be another problem, but it doesn't sound like
that is what's wrong.
As an experiment, make a new folder and move your stacks to that
location. Then try saving the stack again and see if it works. If it
does, there is something wrong with the older folder.
Right, that's what I did when I created new folder with brand new MC
IDE using "metacard_setup.mc" stack.
As soon as I tried to save "home" stack I got "can't open stack backup
file" error, same error that I'm getting from time to time in my MC
IDE. The second attempt to save is always successful which probably
excludes Permissions. Still It seems related to my computer otherwise
somebody would confirm this issue.
As for the rest of my post, you are right, it's better to keep such
modifications personal and handle them in either plugIn or front Script
or the script of stack home.
best regards
Tariel
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