Re: Expressionist problem

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From: Michael J Kobb
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 22:43

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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

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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
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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>
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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