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Project file corrupted

 		6/1/2010 3:21:45 PM
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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 mfred author

I hope that there is a way to fix this. I don't recall this ever happening in the years that I have been using ASPRunner. I have a project that I have spent hours on. I closed it while I was in some meetings. When I went to open it, ASPRunner supplies a pop-up message that says "Project file corrupted". There is no problem with the database since I have other projects connected to it and they open fine. I probably have 5 hours of work in this.
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 		ann 6/2/2010

Hi,
It's difficult to tell you what's happening without seeing actual files.

Please zip and send your project file to support@xlinesoft.com for investigation.
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 		mfred author 6/2/2010

I should have made a copy of the corrupted file before I figured out one way to fix it. I was creating the application in 6.2 but I had not removed 6.1 yet. Since I was in a crunch for time, I tried opening the 6.2 file in 6.1, saving it then reopening it in 6.2. I lost some design changes but most of the work was salvaged this way. I probably lost an hour or so of work instead of 5 or so hours.
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 		mfred author 6/2/2010

This just happened again. I am emailing the project.
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 		mfred author 6/2/2010

I figured out what was corrupted in the file. I changed the extension to .txt so that I could look at the code in the .aspr. Fortunately, I saved a copy of the file this morning, before I started working on the project again. I compared the code of both files and noticed that the old file ended with </project> but the corrupted file with all the changes did not. It took a while but I found where the code abruptly ended in the corrupted file. I pasted the hundreds of lines of missing code and saved it. Worse case, it wouldn't work and I would have to use the 6.1 method that I previously used (although I still don't know why 6.1 didn't see it as a corrupted file since it was missing so much code. Well, I opened the file in 6.2 and everything appears good.