You have to go to the Object menu and choose Place Group to see all of the orphaned groups. All I did to replicate was put the big field inside a group and made it a background. I’m sure it would be possible to delete them, but I would need to look for the process. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:12 AM Neville Smythe via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thanks Richard. > > Disregard my nonsense about the EOF at 28KB, I misread the BBEdit output. > The file did indeed have extra garbage after deleting all but 1 card. > > The extraneous data actually consists of the text of the background field > from the deleted cards: “Lorem ipsum” occurs 2024 in the hex dump, but Find > and Replace can only find 18 instances, all in the single card remaining. > Very similar to the unplaced background groups left over as you reported if > the cards are created by copy-and-paste, but in this case I created them > with new card (with a field in a background group). This bug is worse > because there is no handle to the orphaned text in the browser or menus! > Note that I’m still thinking of this as a bug, rather than a problem with > my system :-) - it happens in Windows as well. > > Brian Milby tells me that he could not replicate the bug in LC 9 if the > cards are created with with copy-and-paste and no background groups. I’ll > do some more testing with LC9, with and without a background group and the > two methods of creating cards (and on Windows and Linux). My guess is that > compact stack is not working correctly in the case of deleting cards with > background fields in LC8, and this may or may not have been fixed in LC9. > > Brian does also confirm the slow saving in Windows 10, in fact his times > are much worse. Are there no longer any Windows 10 users of LC? (to be fair > my stacks compiled under LC 8.1.x do perform well under Windows 10 except > for the terrible saving problem). > > Neville Smythe > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode