I have a stack/standalone that I have been working with for months. Suddenly I 
cannot open it in Rev (2.8) and the standalone won't launch either!

To make things clear: the standalone is a splashscreen stack that contains 
several compressed stacks as custom properties. When the standalone launches, 
or the splashscreen stack launches in Rev, it looks for the other stacks in (on 
a Mac) in users/myUserName/library/preferences/myPreferenceFolder. If the 
stacks are not there, the compressed stacks in the custom properties of the 
splashscreen stack are decompressed and placed into the preference folder. 
Changes made to them are saved there.

This has worked for many months - using either the standalone or opening the 
splashscreen stack in Rev.

Suddenly the standalone won't open (it bounces once in the dock and then 
nothing) and the splashscreen stack won't open in Rev - Rev simply quits, no 
warning, no error message, nothing!

When I work on this app in Rev and make changes (to the stacks in the 
preferences folder) and save, those stacks in the preferences folder are 
compressed and they replace the compressed stacks in the custom properties of 
the splashscreen stack. Everything always up-to-date.

I have never encountered this problem before. Everything has always worked as 
expected.

The stacks that are stored in the preferences folder can all be opened in Rev 
no problem. But the splashscreen simply won't open either as a standalone or in 
Rev. This of course means that I can't open the stack in scriptDebug mode and 
find the problem.

I have tried to restore an earlier version of the stack using Time Machine, but 
all previous versions that always worked at the time behave the same way - Rev 
quits, no error message, nothing. The really weird thing is that I have a copy 
of that splashscreen stack that is 2 months old and has never been opened, but 
it won't open either!!!! Even though it is a copy of the original which opened 
at the time and has always opened ever since until today!

I have done the following to try to solve this; I trashed the Rev prefs, ran 
Cocktail and restarted. I have tried several earlier versions (using time 
machine) from days that definitely worked properly at the time. `None of them 
work! Even if they did work, it doesn't explain why a standalone that always 
worked before doesn't work now!

I can't think of anything else to try. Any suggestions????

Cheers,

Lars



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