alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open

[Don Slater]

Elizabeth,
I am sorry.. it is hard to know what is going on without being present or to see the projects.

I would recommend that as soon as your students start a project, before doing anything else, they save their project. This starts the automatic backup process in Alice 3 (saving a copy every 10 minutes or so) so that even if the project crashes, there will be backup versions that the students will be able to open and use, with a minimum of loss.

You will will find these backups in a <projectName>.bak directory in the same location as where the project is being saved. The files are named <auto / save><timestamp>.a3p with the time stamp format being <year><month><day><hour><minute><second>. The auto files are automatic backup, and the save files are backups created every time the project is saved.

These are Alice .a3p files and can be opened and run within Alice.

If you can think of any other details that might be helpful (similar elements, props, characters, etc) please send them along.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project

> On Apr 16, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Elizabeth Spruill <espruill at rmsel.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a couple students who have projects that they've been working on. Now every time they open their projects, the projects crash.  In one case, the student gets a bug report.  The other case, Alice simply closes as soon as she tries to do anything.  Is there a way to use the .bak files to open the projects?  Can we recover the work they've done so they can move on?
> Thanks.
> Elizabeth Spruill
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