Troubleshoot CLAN crushing files

Sun May 10 21:38:18 UTC 2020

Hi Leonid,

Thank you for your detailed step by step instructions. But weirdly, I don't
have the file tab in my Word toolbar. One of my colleagues suggested
copying the word file into CLAN and saving it as a CLAN file. Then use
CHSTRING + q command to delete extra spaces between lines in the file and
it worked!!! However, when I run check command on my files, it always tells
me there's a problem with the apostrophes in each line. I have attached a
screenshot of the output. Can you please tell me how to fix this? Does it
have anything to do with the keyboard input I use? I use the default input
on my laptop.

Thank you so much for your help!
Molly

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 11:18 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Molly,
>
> The file you attached is a MSWord file. You need to change its extension
> from .cha to .doc and open it with Microsoft Word. After that you need to
> select menu "File->Save As...". After that select File Format "Plain Text
> (.txt) - look at picture below:
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> Now click on "Save" button and you should see the next window where you
> should select Other encoding: "Unicode (UTF-8)" like in the next picture:
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> After clicking on "OK" button you will have file .txt saved. Rename that
> extension to .cha and now CLAN will be able to open that .cha file. It
> should look like in the picture below:
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> Leonid.
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> On May 9, 2020, at 20:48, Molly Ye <mollyye1994 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Leonid,
>
> I was running CHECK command from Commands window. I believe it might be
> the way I concert word file to cha. created the problems. I have no problem
> opening a cha file that already was checked without errors. However, when I
> run CHECK commands from Commands window, and it tells me the file has some
> errors, then I try to open the file by double clicking it, a window pops up
> saying my file may be corrupted. I have attached to this email the
> problematic data file and a screenshot of pop-up window which states the
> file may be corrupted.
>
> Thank you so much for your assistance!
>
> Best,
> Molly
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:48 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Molly,
>>
>> If CLAN opens at all on your Mac, then the problem you are describing
>> doesn't have anything to do with Mac. I would suggest that you quit CLAN
>> completely and restart it and see if the problem persists. If it does, then
>> reboot your Mac and try again. After that you can try installing the latest
>> version of CLAN on your Mac or sent to me directly the data file that
>> crushes CLAN when you run CHECK and I will try to diagnose the problem.
>> Also, tell me if you are running CHECK command from Commands window or you
>> are using ESC-L or "Mode->Check opened file" menu.
>>
>>
>> Leonid.
>>
>> On Mar 30, 2020, at 14:43, Molly Ye <mollyye1994 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I ran into a problem with CLAN where it always crushes my files every
>> time I run a check commend. Does it have anything to do with the fact that
>> I'm using a MAC?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Molly
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