Can't open, bad header

Juergen.Lange's icon

Hi,

opening a max patcher shows in max window

error: patchername: can't open, bad header.

Is there any possibility to repair the file?

Finder has no problem to copy the file.

Juergen

Jeremy's icon

This usually means that the file has the wrong type -- that it's
actually a text patcher, but has been typed as a binary one. Try
opening the file "as text" in Max and resaving.

jb

Juergen.Lange's icon

Good idea.
I could not open the file with MAXMSP as text, but could open with TextEdit.
And I found this: the student who worked at the patcher saved the
pattrstorage file at the patcher name!

Juergen