alice-teacher Programs Crashing upon open

[Eric Brown]

Elizabeth,

Inside the .bak folder should be several save files.  They are in the format of:

autosave(yearDay_time) - that should have been captured approximately ever 5 minutes while the project was open for the last 30ish minutes we delete the oldest after 5.

save(yearDay_time) - there should be a copy of each of the last intentional saves up to five.

You can check those to see if you can find a version that work.

I am also not sure what version of Alice you are using but we have improved some things that may allow the world to open successfully in our newer versions (better error recovery).  So you could download a newer version (we just published a new version) and try opening it in that.  This depends on if they did something that we are better at dealing with now and not something beyond our abilities.  

I hope you are able to get the students back up and running with one of these methods.

Sincerely,

Eric


> On Apr 16, 2019, at 10:56 AM, 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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