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#1 2010-06-29 09:51:59
Scratch Nightmare
Hi I will start by saying that I love scratch and have enjoyed my work with it so far.
I like to run scratch on my laptop running ubuntu which normally does just as good a job as windows. And yesterday something happened... I spent 2 solid hours working on a project (I find scratch addictive) before saving - to usb. I took a break and came back later. I tried to open my project but got an error saying something like " Cannot read file - incorrect header" This was very disappointing because I had just lost work that I spent two hours on.
I tried to remake my project as quick as I could (I wanted to impress some fellow scratch peoples the next day) It was never going to be the same 
I am very disappointed with this and was wondering if anyone knows what this problem is about?
Thanks in advance 
Last edited by rep353 (2010-06-29 09:53:15)
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#2 2010-06-29 10:32:03
- Billybob-Mario
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Re: Scratch Nightmare
You probably opened it in an outdated version of Scratch. Make sure that you opened it in 1.4 instead of 1.2 or some other version. The 'incorrect header' thing has happened to me when I tried opening a 1.4 project in 1.2.
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#3 2010-06-29 10:39:04
Re: Scratch Nightmare
it could of been opened with an old version of scratch, or a mod. try find 1.4 on your computer
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#5 2010-06-29 12:23:51
Re: Scratch Nightmare
JSO wrote:
If you were and are using Scratch 1.4, you probably closed Scratch before it finished saving. Then all your work is lost
I have scratch 1.4 and I definitely 100% saved my work. I can accept that I lost my project but I am very disappointed. (I have used scratch a lot before now never giving any issues)
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#6 2010-06-29 12:57:49
- Ratty1967UK
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Re: Scratch Nightmare
Personally, I would never use a USB flash memory stick as my primary storage - they're for backups and moving files from one place to another - and they're definitely not infallible.
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#7 2010-06-29 15:22:43
Re: Scratch Nightmare
Ratty1967UK wrote:
Personally, I would never use a USB flash memory stick as my primary storage - they're for backups and moving files from one place to another - and they're definitely not infallible.
I saved to hard disk then copied to flash drive still had the problem and it definitely saved and copied 100%.
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#9 2010-06-29 17:02:41
- Billybob-Mario
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Re: Scratch Nightmare
rep353 wrote:
JSO wrote:
If you were and are using Scratch 1.4, you probably closed Scratch before it finished saving. Then all your work is lost
I have scratch 1.4 and I definitely 100% saved my work. I can accept that I lost my project but I am very disappointed. (I have used scratch a lot before now never giving any issues)
You might have 1.4, but that doesn't mean that was what opened it. You might have somehow accidentally opened it with an older version.
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