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BACKUP YOUR PROGRESS OFTEN!
Galandros:
Avoid playing assembly games while coding.
And danger with other TI-BASIC programs that use/erase your strings or pictures.
Deep Toaster:
--- Quote from: calcdude84se on April 29, 2010, 08:03:18 pm ---I won't mention how many times I lost data (only on small, worthless ASM and BASIC programs) by, after losing the original, trying to ungroup the backup I had made and getting an ERROR:VERSION on the wanted file or getting it on a file alphabetically before, causing me to be unable to get the file in question.
So, yeah, not even your archive is a completely safe place.
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That ERR:VERSION has happened to me too. Why does it happen? I group a couple of perfectly fine variables, then ungroup it on the same calculator, and it throws a version error. It happened as I was finishing up a pretty complex game after weeks of working on it, and I had no choice but to delete the broken group to free up archive space. Once, however, I did get my files back. I was somewhat panicking when I saw the ERR:VERSION again, and tried everything I could to get my precious program back, including deleting the application MirageOS. For some reason, it worked. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
DJ Omnimaga:
it's impossible to figure out when an ERR:Version will happen. It seems very random. ALl you can do is group your files twice or three times in a row and hope one of the group will work fine.
It's Texas Instruments buggy OSes fault. It seems like the only good alternative to that is to have two calcs and backup your stuff on the other calc before testing. Sending the stuff to the computer is not 100% reliable, since files can corrupt when sent on the computer. You really need to double-check your backups when you do any, unfortunately :/
Deep Toaster:
--- Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on May 28, 2010, 11:48:47 pm ---it's impossible to figure out when an ERR:Version will happen. It seems very random. ALl you can do is group your files twice or three times in a row and hope one of the group will work fine.
It's Texas Instruments buggy OSes fault. It seems like the only good alternative to that is to have two calcs and backup your stuff on the other calc before testing. Sending the stuff to the computer is not 100% reliable, since files can corrupt when sent on the computer. You really need to double-check your backups when you do any, unfortunately :/
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What a waste of Flash...
Why doesn't TI fix their bugs?
DJ Omnimaga:
Because they're are stupid x.x
They are starting to remind me Micro$oft
That said we must still thank TI for making those calcs, tho :P
Where would be the TI calculator community if calc gaming on their machines was totally impossible? I also think calc programming is a great way to get introduced to programming in general.
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