macros.dat

hakarien · Post by **hakarien** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:23 pm

Hi,

Is there a way to automatically re-create macros.dat from the available .scp ?

i.e I have all .scp in structured folders and want my macros groups to reflect it.

TIA

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:21 pm

It sounds like you may have physically moved scripts to folders?

Have you imported the scripts into the folders on the Macro Scheduler panel?

hakarien · Post by **hakarien** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:20 am

Bob Hansen wrote:It sounds like you may have physically moved scripts to folders?

Have you imported the scripts into the folders on the Macro Scheduler panel?

No, the macros.dat file just got corrupted.

The import feature only import from one folder to anoteher one and you can not import to itself.

So if you have many, it's a long and painfull procces to duplicate your directory trees, import folder after folder and erase the original (well maybe ...) afterward !

Thanks for trying

Tax analyst · Post by **Tax analyst** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:04 pm

At my old computer, the Macros.dat file seemed to get corrupted every time I had to reboot without going through shutdown. I got in the habit of keeping a copy of it under a different name (Macros.sav) to handle that situation. I used Ver. 5.1.

support · Post by **support** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:19 pm

5.1 is VERY old and the way macros.dat is written to has been changed completely since then. There were some issues with the way macros.dat was being written. 7.3 is completely different.

Hakarien · Post by **Hakarien** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:20 am

The way macros.dat got corrupted had nothing to do with Macro Scheduler.
But I have to rebuild it nevertheless and it's not so easy since Macro Scheduler doesn't accept macros with same name, even in different directories...

I really wish there were a rebuild from directory function

support · Post by **support** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:30 am

Well you can import .scp files from a directory already.

But since the scheduling data is in macros.dat and that is the file that got corrupted then of course you can't rebuild it from anywhere since it's self has the data you want to rebuild it's self with!

I'd recommend backing that file up if it is likely to get messed up by something. Same goes for any important files or database.

macros.dat

macros.dat

Macros.dat file corrupted regularly