| Yikes! IDL Crash-Projects Gone [message #87998] |
Tue, 11 March 2014 10:02  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
Yikes! I crashed IDL so hard just a moment ago doing some object
programming, I had to reboot my computer. Now, when I open IDL up all my
projects are gone, etc. What the hell just happened!?
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Yikes! IDL Crash-Projects Gone [message #88005 is a reply to message #87998] |
Tue, 11 March 2014 14:16  |
Jim Pendleton
Messages: 165
Registered: November 2011
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:02:21 AM UTC-6, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> Yikes! I crashed IDL so hard just a moment ago doing some object
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> programming, I had to reboot my computer. Now, when I open IDL up all my
>
> projects are gone, etc. What the hell just happened!?
>
>
>
> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
Hi David,
I can't explain why, but when the workbench crashes, it sometimes leaves corrupted workspace directory contents that aren't parsed correctly the next time around.
A work-around is to restore a known set of working files.
If you're running Windows 7, can you navigate in Windows Explorer to your C:\Users\"coyote"\IDLWokspace83 folder, right click and select "Restore previous versions", then pull up a backup copy?
Any chance the workbench disappeared when you tried to use the File/Save dialog? I'm looking for other victims of that behavior so people in the building will stop calling me crazy. For that reason, anyway.
Jim P.
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| Re: Yikes! IDL Crash-Projects Gone [message #88006 is a reply to message #88005] |
Tue, 11 March 2014 14:39 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Jim P writes:
>> Yikes! I crashed IDL so hard just a moment ago doing some object
>> programming, I had to reboot my computer. Now, when I open IDL up >
>> all my projects are gone, etc. What the hell just happened!?
>>
> I can't explain why, but when the workbench crashes, it sometimes
leaves corrupted workspace directory contents that aren't parsed
correctly the next time around.
>
> A work-around is to restore a known set of working files.
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> If you're running Windows 7, can you navigate in Windows Explorer to your C:\Users\"coyote"\IDLWokspace83 folder, right click and select "Restore previous versions", then pull up a backup copy?
Why, yes, I certainly can! That's a good trick! Thanks. :-)
> Any chance the workbench disappeared when you tried to use the File/Save dialog? I'm looking for other victims of that behavior so people in the building will stop calling me crazy. For that reason, anyway.
Well, I was doing something pretty stupid, I guess, and had gotten
myself into some kind of infinite loop. I guess you know you're getting
old when you can't even figure out how your own damn programs work. :-(
As long as we are talking tricks. Sometimes I want to have more than one
workspace. For example, I'd like to have a teaching workspace. But, I
don't want to go to all the trouble of setting it up from scratch. Is
there a way to tell IDL "I want you to copy my current workspace setup
and install it over there", where I can then modify it to my liking?
Thanks, again. Very helpful.
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Yikes! IDL Crash-Projects Gone [message #88009 is a reply to message #87998] |
Tue, 11 March 2014 16:52 |
Jim Pendleton
Messages: 165
Registered: November 2011
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Senior Member |
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:02:21 AM UTC-6, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>
> Yikes! I crashed IDL so hard just a moment ago doing some object
>
> programming, I had to reboot my computer. Now, when I open IDL up all my
>
> projects are gone, etc. What the hell just happened!?
>
>
>
> David
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>
>
> --
>
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
How about just copying your C:\Users\"coyote"\IDLWokspace83 to C:\Users\"coyote"\IDLWokspace83_MoBettah, then selecting that workspace at startup while the first is already open? I don't know of a quick way to change the default other than through the prompt when one is locked. I'll bet there are Eclipse tricks for this. Maybe something is editable in C:\Users\"coyote"\.idl\idlworkbench-config-idl8.3.0_x86_64\.settings?
Jim P.
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