Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mjkobb From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Expressionist problem Summary: Ditch Expressionist Scratchpad Keywords: Expressionist DA problems Message-ID: <456@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 89 22:43:44 GMT References: <4896@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 15 In article <4896@tank.uchicago.edu> zag@tank.uchicago.edu (Zack Gardner) writes: >Help! A very mysterious thing is happening to my Expressionist DA. >Every time I try to launch it, a dialog box pops up with the message >"This picture expression looks like garbage data! Sorry, I can't >understand it. (-2007)", and then I'm landed back in the finder. Have you tried killing the file named "Expressionist Scratchpad" in the System Folder? It may be that this got mangled somehow and that when Expressionist starts (when it looks for a saved scratchpad) it finds this mangled file and dies. Just a suggestion; I don't know if this will work or not... You could always reinstall... --Mike Standard disclaimers...