Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: CONVERSION OF BROKEN 1.1 FILE TO 2.0
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:31:16 -0600


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 > Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
 >  Subject: Conversion of broken 1.1 file to 2.0.....
 > Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics, RTP, NC
 >  Message-ID: <1992Dec16.041421.4713@mcnc.org>
 >  Date: 16 Dec 92 04:14:21 GMT
 > 
 > We have an address list in version 1.1 of hypercard that we are 
 > trying 
 > to convert to 2.0. However, it has an error in the middle of the 
 > address 
 > stack (around the M's) and when we try to convert we get
 > 
 > 	"Unexpected Error  5455"
 > 
 > If we open the stack in 1.1 we can examine the cards from A-L and 
 > from Z-N,
 > but once we hit the M's it locks up the software.
 > 
 > Can someone help me with this? I beleive there are three ways to 
 > proceed:
 > 1. try and save the stack from A-L and N-Z and then convert
 > 2. try and print out each card and retype the whole thing (I don't 
 > want to 
 > do this if possible)
 > 3. maybe try and fix the file somehow?

I don't know a thing about the error number. A similar situation has happened to
me before. I would open the stack and then do a new stack with the same
background. Write a handler to export the contents of your A-l cards and your n
- z cards just so that you'll have a stack that works. 
 
From the original stack, I would delete the cards a-l and n-z. Then try to print
stack ince only the M cards will remain. If it prints the cards then you have
your data available in case you have to go and fat finger it into the new
uncorrupted stack.
 
Once upon a time on America Online I found a file named "Stack Repair". It
worked on my problem. A friend tried it with a different problem and it didn't
work. I'd try to fix it before converting though instead of trying to fix a
stack thatmay or may not have converted correctly.



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