Need help with Mac ID error code

Miss Felicia Owens

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Dec 31, 1994, 1:09:30 AM12/31/94

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I was running a Macintosh program and it suddenly quit with the message
"application has unexpectedly quit" or something to that effect.
When I tried to open the file I was working on, it said , "error, file not
loaded. ID= -39."

I used ResEdit to verify the file, and ResEdit said it was ok. I tried to
open it again, and I got the same error message.

I want to know is there a listing of Macintosh error codes, and if so,
where do I find it? Any suggestions on how I retrieve the data that I
worked on all night?

Felicia
feli...@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Ken Long

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Dec 31, 1994, 1:16:11 PM12/31/94

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Miss Felicia Owens (feli...@andromeda.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: I was running a Macintosh program and it suddenly quit with the message

: "application has unexpectedly quit" or something to that effect.
: When I tried to open the file I was working on, it said , "error, file not
: loaded. ID= -39."

Error -39 is "Logical end-of-file reached during read operation"

get Easy Errors to get instant answers to what error numbers stand for.

: I used ResEdit to verify the file, and ResEdit said it was ok. I tried to

: open it again, and I got the same error message.

There could be a number of reasons why that happened. Inside Macintosh:
Files would be the best place to start looking. Could be that a
limb broke off the tree" for that file, and a fragment of it was not
pointed to from an earlier fragment on the disk?

I'd run Norton or MacTools, just to see if that gets it fixed.

: I want to know is there a listing of Macintosh error codes, and if so,

: where do I find it? Any suggestions on how I retrieve the data that I
: worked on all night?

If it's data fork stuff, CanOpener would get all the text without all the
goop, and save it off into a text file. What kind of file was it (type)?

Anyone else have some ideas?

-Ken-

William Bennett

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Jan 3, 1995, 4:47:42 PM1/3/95

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Crude but effective fix for error -39:

Re-install the application.

Believe me it works!

Lim Wai Kong David

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Jan 9, 1995, 7:02:07 AM1/9/95

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Miss Felicia Owens (feli...@andromeda.rutgers.edu) wrote:

: I want to know is there a listing of Macintosh error codes, and if so,

: where do I find it? Any suggestions on how I retrieve the data that I
: worked on all night?

I just replied to a similar post in another folder, but here goes :-)

Try getting the file system-errors-701.hqx . It contains a nifty
program which lists all the common Mac error codes and some uncommon
ones. You can find it in ftp.nus.sg under the directory /ftp/nus/mac/util.
I'm sure you can find it elsewhere also, but ftp.nus.sg happens to be
local to me.. so..

: Felicia
: feli...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
David Lim
limw...@iscs.nus.sg

Bruce McAlary

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Jan 10, 1995, 10:42:31 AM1/10/95

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Lim Wai Kong David (limw...@iscs.nus.sg) wrote:

I found a list of mac error codes (finally) when running MacCheck that
came with my performa.

This should list the one you are looking for...

Good Luck!
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