Hello Sophie,

i> PointerFinder reveals numerous pointers to obsolete classes. All of them i> seem to originate from something that appears (in the PointerFinder window) i> as either: i> #Refactoring -> Refactoring class i> or i> #EventManager -> EventManager class i> with lots of additional info.

i> I have no idea how to even reach the handles that are holding onto these i> obsolete classes, them seem to be from Squeak code. Any pointers appreciated i> :-)

you can search the swiki for "cleaning up junk". Also I seem to remember this topic was discussed on squeak dev in the past. I don't feel this is a beginners topic :-))

Cheers

Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

Michael Davies wrote:

Ramon Leon posted a useful utility that attempts to clean up a variety of common problems in an image: http://onsmalltalk.com/programming/smalltalk/squeak-smalltalk-image-maintena...

If this doesn't help, at least you know that it's not a simple problem! _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

This is some code from MC1.5 which I think is the most comprehensive attempt to rehome obsolete instances.

this comes with extensive disclaimers

Keith

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fixAllObsoleteReferences " self fixAllObsoleteReferences " (SystemNavigation default obsoleteBehaviors select: [ :c | c isMeta not ]) do: [ :obsClass |

([obsClass nonObsoleteClass] ifError: [ nil]) ifNotNilDo: [ :actualClass |

actualClass updateInstancesFrom: obsClass. obsClass becomeForward: actualClass.

([obsClass metaclass] ifError:[nil]) ifNotNilDo: [:metaClass | metaClass becomeForward: actualClass class ]]].

SmalltalkImage current fixObsoleteReferences