I have no problem loading my preferences.  If you're able to resave a
new prefs file and load that, maybe your prefs file was just old..?

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:58 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> In a latest trunk image, fully updated, I tried to 'load from disk’ my older preferences. It fails because in DiskProxy>comeFullyUpOnReload: the code does
>
>         globalObj := Smalltalk at: symbol ifAbsent: [
>                 preSelector == nil & (constructorSelector = #yourself) ifTrue: [
>                         Transcript cr; show: symbol, ' is undeclared.'.
>                         (Undeclared includesKey: symbol) ifTrue: [^ Undeclared at: symbol].
>                         Undeclared at: symbol put: nil.
>                         ^ nil].
>                 ^ self error: 'Global "', symbol, '" not found'].
> The symbol is #Context
>
> Saving a new preferences file and reloading seems to work. I’ve no idea where the #Context comes from and pretty much any attempt to look through the stack starts firing off annoying notifiers because the ‘aDataStream’ parameter in the IdentityDictionary>readDataFrom:size: is nil by this point.
> Is this crucially important? Probably not but it will annoy anyone with a preferences file.
>
> tim
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