[plt-scheme] Help recovering corrupted DrScheme editor file

That did the trick. Thanks, guys.
-Eddie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robby Findler" <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
To: "John Clements" <clements at brinckerhoff.org>
Cc: "Eddie Sullivan" <eddieSull at hotmail.com>; <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Help recovering corrupted DrScheme editor file


Also, if the newer release can open the file, then saving it in the
new release will fix the corruption for the 4.2 release.

Robby

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, John
Clements<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Eddie Sullivan wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>> I'm not sure how it happened, but I have a file I can no longer open in
>> DrScheme (version 4.2 [3m], Windows XP). I see the following error trace 
>> in
>> a popup window when I try to open it:
>>
>> insert-file in text%: error loading the file
>>
>> === context ===
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\mred\private\wxme\text.ss:2538:2:
>> do-insert-file method in text%
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\mred\private\editor.ss:177:35
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\mred\private\editor.ss:171:29
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\drscheme\private\unit.ss:2107:8:
>> change-to-file method in ...heme/private/unit.ss:1382:6
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\drscheme\private\unit.ss:4490:8
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\scheme\private\contract-arrow.ss:1364:3
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\scheme\private\contract-arrow.ss:1364:3
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\framework\private\handler.ss:202:0:
>> open-recent-list-item
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\mred\private\mrmenu.ss:244:17: command
>> method in basic-selectable-menu-item%
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\scheme\private\more-scheme.ss:155:2:
>> call-with-break-parameterization
>> C:\Program Files\PLT\collects\scheme\private\more-scheme.ss:271:2:
>> call-with-exception-handler
>>
>>
>> I've attached the file. Can anybody help me recover it? And do you have
>> any ideas what may have caused the corruption, so I can avoid it in the
>> future?
>> Thanks.
>> -Eddie Sullivan
>> <server-util.scm>_________________________________________________
>
> I've observed similar problems that have been fixed in more recent
> ("pre-release") versions of drscheme. That is, the newer version of
> drscheme can open the apparently corrupted file. Try downloading the
> pre-release version of DrScheme and see whether this fixes the problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> John Clements
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