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bigwhitesofadog
I am using weavepoint 8 on a windows 10 machine. I have been working
with the same file for about a week on a TDL. I use my main laptop to create my files and move them to the studio on a thumb drive. When I was finishing a session and went to save my place, I got an error message, Incompatible file format, File error. I closed everything down and left. When I tried to start again, I could not open the file. Same error messages. When I look at the file properties, it has 0 bytes. Other files on the thumb drive seem to be OK. I was able to recreate my pattern, but I sure would like to know what happened. Anyone have any ideas? I am mystified. I have had thumbdrives reach their lifespan, which means you can't copy to them, but you can read from them. This also can give you an error message,but it can be ignored. Sandra |
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Nancy Hassel
USB drives can be frustrating. They definitely cannot live forever but they can sometimes be repaired. Consider running the cmd prompt as administrator (start menu => type "cmd"m=> select "run As Administrator")
Then enter: "chkdsk <vol of usb> /f /r /x" to see if you can find & fix the problem (if USB is E: then type "chkdsk e: /f /r /x" OR enter "cd e:" then chkdsk /f /r /x" To learn more about chkdsk options enter "chkdsk /?" in the cmd prompt You can google chkdsk to obtain useful information but DO NOT DOWNLOAD anything on the page you open. -- Nancy Hassel Hillsboro, NH, USA http://fiber.hassel.net |
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Dale Wilson
Once upon a time I stored personal computer data on audio cassette tapes. I quickly learned to dedicate (at least) two tapes to every purpose. Whenever I stored a file I swapped tapes so there was an automatic slightly-out-of-date backup available if anything went wrong. USB drives are cheap enough now that this might be a good strategy again. Alas, this is locking the door after the horse escaped, but maybe someone else will benefit. Dale On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 6:32 AM Nancy Hassel <nancy@...> wrote: USB drives can be frustrating. They definitely cannot live forever but they can sometimes be repaired. Consider running the cmd prompt as administrator (start menu => type "cmd"m=> select "run As Administrator") --
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. |
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I learned this from a computer technician. What is the safest practice to remove a USB? Answer. Answer: Click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Windows taskbar. Wait for a message to pop up and then click on “Safely Remove Hardware.” Once a message pops up, you can remove the USB drive.Aug 27, 2021 |
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Janell Neulinger
I wouldn’t necessarily blame the USB. I have experienced Weavepoint failing-on-save with a resulting corrupted file, no USB involved. Luckily I had a saved version not too many changes back so I could recreate it. —janell |
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Chuck Colht
I don't trust USB drives as the only copy of data. Having worked with them professionally for as long as they (and floppies going back to 8") have been around, they are not reliable enough for that. Personally I use Dropbox for all my designs. I can edit on one machine and can almost immediately access it on any other, including a phone or tablet anywhere in the world. Nothing is perfect but for my purposes, security is more than adequate. There's also some version history available and easy undelete. Also, the files can be kept local so even if you are not connected, the files are there. No sync of course but it's not magic
I pay $120 a year for 2TB of space since I use if for lots of things but you can get 2GB for free, which would hold a lot of WIFs :) There are plenty of other cloud storage services that offer similar features but the main thing I would look for is that it looks like any other folder on your computer. That way it will work with any normal program |
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bigwhitesofadog
Thank you for all your suggestions. Part of my problem is that the laptop that the file was created on, and has the original for the cute cat towel file, has died. Usually I back it up on OneDrive, but this time I didn't. From now on, I will be sure to copy my working file to the machine running the loom. I don't use cloud to transfer my files because I don't have or want WIFI in my studio. I want to make sure that a machine that is running a loom doesn't update itself. Sandra |
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Lorelei Caracausa
Sorry for your experience, we have all been there. I do have wifi in the studio, but all the laptops connected to looms are turned to "airplane mode" On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 9:05 AM bigwhitesofadog <sandra.eberhart@...> wrote:
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alaskajean1
HI, I spent over 20 years doing computer support for the Forest Service.I surely learned the benefit of daily backups. I don't do that at home, but I do a once a week backup of all my personal files to an external drive. I use lots of flash dries as well for smaller backups and I am very careful to exit from their use very carefully to ensure that I have closed it properly.'Jean B |
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