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Help With Damaged Project File

I worked all day yesterday and til about 3AM in the morning. I was on a roll. I saved my programs to the cloud and then I added personal stuff and saved them to my hard drive. Next I upgraded my builder. Things were working absolutely perfect last night. When I tried this afternoon at 2:00pm to open my file from my Hard disk, it said the file was corrupted or not the right version. Next I tried to open the file I had saved to the cloud and it gave me the same message. I am always updating and have NEVER had this problem before. I tried to install the previous version that I had on my hardrive saved and it told me that I could not downgrade because there was a newer version already on the machine. Then I tried to repair and it did complete. But, I still cannot access the programs I worked so hard to build.

Any suggestions??? Please Help!!!

Thanks in Advance!!!!

Mel

P.S. Sorry I put the title wrong.


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#5  
It wouldn't let me upload it. But it is on the cloud. The name is: useful commands. If you can get this working, I would like to try the one on my HD. But, that one is 317mb. It won't allow me to upload.
#6  
I have Uninstalled all previous versions of EZB and installed them back one at a time. But, somehow the file got corrupted, I guess. I was able to load and run all of the previous files that I did that day. Just this one file. Of course , it was the biggest and nicest yet
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#7  
The Cloud file useful commands is zero length and won't load so yes corrupted
#8  
And, on my end, it says that it is 317mb. But, it wouldn't load either. Something went wrong. I will just erase it and start over. But it was sooo cool. It was doing all kinds of stuff.
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#9  
Thats a shame it had already gone when I looked again. At least you seem to be up and working again :)
#10  
I will reprogram it over a period of the next few days and post it back.

Mel
#11  
So sorry Mel. What an absolute bummer!! I know how dishearting it can be. I lost one of my projects in the past. Ever since I always save my projects to a flash drive and to a external hard drive. So far, so good. Hang inb there my friend.
#12  
I had it saved in lots of places. But, NONE of them would reload.

Ok, I did a little experiment. I put all of the items I wanted to do in the file and saved it. IT became corrupt upon reload.

I did another program and had only 3 of the items. I saved it and reloaded it and it worked fine. so, there MUST be a limitation that I am violatiing. If someone knows , please let me know.

Thanks for your support.
#13  
I tried 3 files, worked great. Next I tried 12 files and I got an error that there was a problem with the saving of the xml file. Only 12 files!! I will continue testing. With 12, I was able to save to the hard drive, but not the cloud.
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#14  
It looks like it's a soundboard issue hmmm... i haven't experienced this before. i'll poke around and look

*note: i deleted your other threads you started on this topic. one thread makes it a lot easier.
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#16  
how big are your audio files that you are adding? if the saved file is 365mb, are the audio files that large also?
#17  
I will look and see. In sound board, it only takes wav files , doesn't it? MP3 would be smaller. But, I don't know all of the technicalities about that.

238K for all of them

NOTE* I am sorry, 238 MEG not K.

Ok, the largest is 369k and the smallest is 16K and the rest are everything inbetween.
#18  
I did a Windows Upgrade to get the latest everything.
I did a SFC SCANNOW to check the system files.
I did a Virus Scan.
Everything came out great.

Next, I did a series of Tests:

Test1 = 1 small soundbyte: =normal save and retrieve.
Test2= 3 small soundbytes: normal save and retrieve.
TEST3= 3 small soundbytes and 1 large complete song . = Saved, but could not reload.
Test4= 3 small soundbytes and 1 complete song= 24Megs=Saved and loaded fine.

I believe the size of the files matter. I believe the song was around 210k.

Maybe this data will help you determind what we can do.

thanks,

Mel
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#19  
Thanks for the test results.

I moved your information from the other thread you created into this one. Only need one thread for this discussion.
#20  
I have done some more tests. I added upto 24 files to put in the sound board. When I got to 25, it would not let me open the file. Then I took about five small files out and added large files upto 24 only.

Results, I have loaded upto 28 files, so there is no 24 limit.

But, you are limited on your megs. I could not manage over 289.6 megs with upto 28 files or a single file over that amount.

So , you can Increase your Megs or You can just tell us don't go OVER 289 Megs. Now it is possible that there is a 300gig limit,but I had no way to test that.

hope that this helped.

Mel
#21  
That was all of the tests that I ran.
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#22  
Hehe, i don't think anyone has used that many sound files before:) Or at least in that file size.

Regarding the 289 MB limit, are you referring to the saving to the cloud, or to the HD?
#23  
Saving to the hard drive or the cloud.

Also,

I needed to play 40 soundbytes. Then I found I could not do them because you can have only one soundboard per project. When I reach the limit, it won't let me go further. I am going to have to shave my program back a little. I wanted to do major stuff with it. I will be happy when Synthia comes out. I am making a sort of sudo-chat algorythm. That is why I needed 40 soundbytes. When I am talking to the robot and I ask if she has ever heard of Lost in Space, she will play "Danger!Danger! Will Robinson!" and so forth and so on. I have about 40 soundbytes and they are neat.

Also, I have a lot of stuff she can simply Say. There are about 40 more. Then it starts to look like A.I. a little bit.
#24  
OK, I kinda sorted out what was most important and using the guidelines and limits made a mainbase chat program. I got in about 95% of my Must haves. It came out good. I tried to upload it to the cloud,but it would not let me. But, at least I can operate it.

Now, my next big step is to add it to the main controller program or add the other functions to this main unit. I know how to do them manually, but it would be nice if I could just add or call those programs like weather,news,sports,jokes. They are all working seperately. In my minds eye, I will totally communicate with the robot through voice and call all separate programs that way. At the end of one, I could call another sort of like a subroutine. But, you will be nice if you let me know if I can do that or not.

Any thoughts, let me know. and have fun at RoboGrl's party.

Bye for now!!

Mel
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