Re: MM2 quits at end of loading mswmm

From: John Kelly (hidden_at_hida.away)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:50:08 GMT

Hi there,

        It sounds to me as though the project file has been corrupted and when MM2
        reads it, it comes across an instruction that is impossible to complete. If
        this is the case you are very likely up the proverbial creak without a paddle.
        I have just opened up a project file with notepad and find that as a text file
        it is quite impossible to manipulate.

        Its easy for me to say...but only because of past disasters....I use an
        excelent program called Drive Image 7 (Powerquest) each day it makes two full
        backups of everything in a compressed format and on to a spare slow hard drive.
        When I get disasters such as yours I simply restore from the most recent
        backup...a 1 - 2 minute job. Unlike most NT or XP backup systems you do not
        have to reboot your system into a DOS emulator...Drive Image does the whole job
        live and in the background.

        So as I say, it is easy for me to say...but if you are going to make complex
        projects with MM2 you really should make a backup of at least the project file
        and more properly all of the files in the project on a very regular basis.

        It might be worth your time looking through the knowledge base at
        Microsoft...there may be some help there. 

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