My IT Dept helped us recover backup files that were deleted and then Matt explained to me what they were and how to recover using them & we did so successfully. I never fully understood what those temp files were and have been deleting them as I go all of these years. I finished the program, deleted the temp files as I always do, then went "oh crap I need to delete this one case statement", did the deletion, then BOOM chaos lmao
Matt's words:
"Thanks for allowing me to remote in. As discussed, I copied the program backups (~ or ^) and put them in a directory that had the .CAD file. I removed the character at the end, so it reverts to a typical .PRG file and then we could open the program. "
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Spent three days writing a program. Deleted a CASE statement.
All of a sudden...STACKDUMP
Now, program refuses to open and says "Attempted to access an unnamed file past its end." followed by "PROGRAM_NAME.PRG (Schema:0) Serialization error ALT" followed by "Error: File closed because of bad archive"
Do I usually back up my programs 8x per day? Yes, I do, however for some god awful reason my dumb @ss had this file saved on my desktop and was working from there...so Alwayssync did NOT back this one up. Lesson learned.
Oh and by the way I forgot to mention that my Purchasing Dept dropped the ball on sending out my SMA payment on time (due 12/31 so now I am technically expired) so the Hexagon Software Support Dept is having a spasm trying to figure out if they can still help me with a pending/unprocessed PO or not....lolol
Anyone have any advise? Or should I just re-write this program? PCD2021.2 (release) CAD
