Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: File error Could not read background ID 7457 Message-ID: <15593@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 15 Aug 88 16:37:42 GMT References: <4515@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 29 In article <4515@sphinx.uchicago.edu> her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman) writes: >I've recently developed a problem (twice in one week). >Aafter carelessly deleteing names in rolodex, I developed: > >Error reading from file (some #) > (OK) >Then the next time I tried to Open my Rolodex I Got > >File Error:; Could not read background ID 7654 (<- or something) > >how do I fix this?? A file error (some #) usually means bad media, depending on the number. If you have been using the same floppy for a long time, it is probably time to replace it. That was the good news. The bad news is that the stack is trashed as a result of bad media (it sounds). Find a backup copy of the stack. You do back up frequently, don't you??? I hope for your sake that you do. If not, start. Dan Allen Apple Computer P.S. - I don't mean for this to sound harsh, but that is the cruel reality of bad media. You could recover a large portion of your data by looking through the stack with Fedit. Most of your text will probably still be there, except in a sector or two where the media screwed up.