Hi John, I'm sure the experts will reply with something more helpful than I can, but out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by your last stmt - "there's a bunch of stuff in that image...". Do you mean you're a Squeak source code developer and make changes to your image from a lower-level functional point of view, or do you make UI changes and save the image in that manner, or something else? I'm simply trying to learn more about proper/possible usage of EToys. I personally only change my image by doing updates and "save" them. Everything else is simply published projects.
--Randy
-----Original Message----- From: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org [mailto:squeakland- bounces@squeakland.org] On Behalf Of John Maxwell Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:39 PM To: squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: [Squeakland] Recovering from hung image
I have just painted myself into a corner that I would very much like to get out of. Hope there's a way out.
I was mucking about with an Etoy running and inadvertently did *something* which caused a couple of debug windows to pop up. I didn't get a chance to even notice what I'd done, because what I did next prevented it: at some deep, lizard-brain level, I panicked and, sensing an imminent crash, popped the World menu and hit "save and quit". Upon attempting to restart the image I realized this was NOT the thing to have done, for now I have an image that won't go; it hangs even before anything appears onscreen (it goes far enough to switch to fullscreen mode on my Mac; the menu bar disappears). It seems to go into a loop with 70-80% of my system resources used up.
I am hoping, since whatever I did to cause this was extremely minor and inadvertent, that I can perhaps manually edit the image file and backtrack? Is this possible? My understanding of the changes file is that it will allow me to recover from crashes that happen BEFORE one saves; my problem is unfortunately the opposite.
Any advice or insight would be appreciated... there's a bunch of stuff in that image that I'd be quite annoyed to lose.
- John Maxwell jmax@sfu.ca
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