Sorry for messing up the link in my previous post. > Hi Richard, > > According to the documentation, the number of cards in a Revolution stack is > only limited by the amount of available memory. I can imagine that a stack > with 119000 cards becomes rather big once converted to Revolution. Perhaps it > indeed doesn't fit in memory. It is also possible that one card is corrupted, > but usually this causes Revolution to fail importing the entire stack. > > If you are using a very old version of HyperCard, it might help to convert it > to HyperCard 2.3 or 2.4.1 before opening your stack in Revolution. Compacting > your stack might also help. > > A few years ago, I created a HyperCard utility, which allows for recovering > corrupted stacks and seems to work very well. It can also cut your stack into > smaller pieces. This utility is called Split & Recover. It is freeware and > you can find it here http://qurl.tk/ey . You will need a machine with Mac OS > 9 to run this utility. > > There's another utility, called DIFfersifier, which extracts the data from > your stack. It won't work with corrupted stacks and you might need to run > Split & Recover before using DIFfersifier. DIFfersifier works on Mac OS X, > Windows and Linux. You can find this utility here > <http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com>. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > From 15th August, we'll have time for new projects! Be the first in line and > contact me now! > > Download the Installer Maker plugin for Runtime Revolution at > http://qurl.tk/ce > > On 15 aug 2010, at 10:36, Richard Holton Pierce wrote: > >> >> I am not a professional programmer but had worked with Hypercard from its >> inception, and went over to Revolution as soon as I became aware of its >> existence. >> >> I have been able to convert most of my stacks flawlessly, with one >> exception. In the late 1990s I produced a stack for a research project in >> Russian which contained 119,000 cards (sic!). It has become necessary to >> reactivate this stack, and to convert it to Revolution Enterprise 4.5 I have >> followed the prescribed Revolution procedure. After conversion, all the >> functions I had built into the stack work as they should, but the converted >> stack contains only 28,005 cards. >> >> Is there a built-in limit on how many cards a conversion can accommodate? >> >> Is there a work-around? >> >> Any advice appreciated. >> >> Hopefully, >> >> Richard Pierce
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