Peter Ostry

I had a patch in presentation mode, one object was selected. In the Inspector I unchecked the box "Include in Presentation". Max crashed, the patch was damaged. As I tried to open it Max said:

I opened the damaged file in BBEdit, code looked ok, pasted it into a new Max patch. Saved/replaced the old file. Did not went well, as I reopened it Max complained about a bad header. Deleted the old file, new patcher, pasted the code and saved as a new file. I am back in the game. Unfortunately I could not reproduce the crash yet.

I had a patch in presentation mode, one object was selected. In the Inspector I unchecked the box "Include in Presentation". Max crashed, the patch was damaged. As I tried to open it Max said:
Test Preset: bad magic number
Test Preset: read failed error 0

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> I had a patch in presentation mode, one object was selected. In the Inspector I unchecked the box "Include in Presentation". Max crashed

Do you remember what kind of object you were inspecting? There have been problems in the past with removing objects from a presentation. Perhaps we can track this one down if we know where to look.

Bad magic number is just a user-unfriendly way of saying the file is corrupted. We should try to make the error message more helpful.

Could you briefly explain what is a corrupt file? 

Could you briefly explain what is a corrupt file? 
since the max patches are text file ...


My guess is that the file is supposed to be text but it can't be verified as valid UTF-8. This probably means it has garbage in it somewhere (another way of saying it is corrupt). If it fails the UTF-8 test, then we try to see if it is an old Max binary file, and, not finding the correct header for that type of file, we say it has a bad magic number.

Another possibility is that the file is fine, but the user has given it the wrong extension, which leads Max to believe it is not a Max 5 JSON format text file. When Max tries to validate it as an old format file, it fails.

I have personally never seen a seriously corrupt JSON file, so I don't know which of these alternatives is the more likely scenario.

Quote: David Zicarelli wrote on Sat, 28 June 2008 19:36

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> Do you remember what kind of object you were inspecting? There have been problems in the past with removing objects from a presentation. Perhaps we can track this one down if we know where to look.

I don't remember the object because I just wanted to see if it instantly vanishes from the presentation. But there were only 3 textbuttons, an umenu and a palette as background. One of these objects was it.

Quote: David Zicarelli wrote on Sat, 28 June 2008 19:36
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> Do you remember what kind of object you were inspecting? There have been problems in the past with removing objects from a presentation. Perhaps we can track this one down if we know where to look.
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I don't remember the object because I just wanted to see if it instantly vanishes from the presentation. But there were only 3 textbuttons, an umenu and a palette as background. One of these objects was it.


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