Thanks Jacque (and Mark). Should be able to resore my image (!) with that info. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:43 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 5/3/12 11:22 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> It seems that 5.5 stomps all over existing Preference settings. >> > > Among other things. It's been a topic on the dev list. > > > Other than >> wondering why RunRev's QA process didn't catch that, I can live with it >> since it's not too hard to set them up again. >> > > They did make some changes to prevent problems, but there's still > something iffy going on. I keep a clean copy of the 5.02 prefs and whenever > I move from 5.5 to 5.02 I swap in the clean copy. Recently Mark Weider > suggested I lock the prefs file so it couldn't be overwritten. Duh. :) > > > I'm not sure how to set about getting my Image Library back again. I have >> Time Machine backups but what do I restore to get hold of the stack that >> holds my Image Library and how do I get it back into the current rev >> stacks? >> > > That came up on the dev list too, though I haven't had a problem with it. > Some people are losing their plugins or seeing them corrupted (probably > because of the format change.) One person solved it by renaming the My > LiveCode folder to something else. The real solution will be for developers > to always save their plugins and prefs in 2.7 format, but that will require > individual updates. > > By default, all your stuff is saved in Documents/My LiveCode/. Image > libraries should be in there in the Resources/Icon Libraries folder. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
