E-DataAid crashing

[Matt Paffel]

Hi Everyone, Thank you all for the input. Thankfully I was able to
recover the data using E-Recovery with the .txt files. Here is PST's
response if this should ever happen to anyone else:

"Unfortunately, it seems as though the data files became corrupt, but
it is not clear why. We have had users report this before, and I have
also seen it happen myself, but it is a pretty rare occurrence. Since
you have found a way to regenerate the data files, you should now have
access to all of your data files. If the problem is no longer
occurring, I would say that this was most likely one of those rare
occurrences (especially since nothing in your information above points
to a single cause)."

Additionally, should anyone have a similar problem in the future:

"We have had users report that emailing data files, transferring them
to a flash drive, etc. has caused them to become corrupt. If you need
to email files, for example, you should ZIP them into a ZIP file and
email the .ZIP. If you need to transfer them from one machine to the
next, you can also burn the files to a CD to transfer them. In any
case, you will want to save the files locally to the machine to which
they have been transferred before opening them (i.e., do not open them
directly from the external media or email)."



On May 23, 10:55 am, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Hiya,
> I always found E-DataAid to be exceptionally stable. Also, I'd be amazed if updating to any other E-Prime version will do anything - as far as I can see, the only thing that's different between 2.0x and EP1 in terms of e-dataAid is that it saves the same files with an added 2. These can be interchangeably opened, so one wonders what the great use of the 2 in the name is, there.
>
> My immediate thought would be there's something either wrong with your e-dataAid install (so reinstall), or the data-files themselves. I think the first step the people over at PST will want to sort out is whether there's a problem with your E-DataAid (presumably with its install then, perhaps missing .net components or whatnot), or whether your data-files are somehow corrupted. Have you checked yet whether anyone else can open them? Have you tried re-making the .edat files with E-Recovery? When exactly does E-DataAid crash anyway (during opening of files, during some analysis, &c.)?
>
> As a side note, does anyone else think e-Prime should, in this i-Age, change the name? I'm personally of the opinion that Me-Prime sounds better (although perhaps a bit too late, as YouTube, MySpace and YouGov have all lost that glossiness... Gee-Prime and /i/-Prime will probably end up to be rather costly).
> Best,
> Mich
>
> Michiel Spapé
> Research Fellow
> Perception & Action group
> University of Nottingham
> School of Psychologywww.cognitology.eu
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of MattPaffel
> Sent: 20 May 2011 19:12
> To: E-Prime
> Subject: Re: E-DataAid crashing
>
> Hi David,
>
> I sent PST a support request but I was hoping one of you E-Prime gurus
> here had some insight so I don't have to wait two weeks for a reply
> (not meant as a dis to PST, just impatient).
>
> Also, thanks for the heads up concerning .90.
>
> On May 20, 12:56 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > Matt,
>
> > Have you asked PST Web Support
> > (http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp)? I would
> > try that first.
>
> > Also, latest release of EP2 is 2.0.8.90, so you might also try updating.
>
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> > >E-DataAid has been crashing when opening files. However, it doesn't
> > >happen with every file I try to open.
>
> > >When I try to open the files on XP, I get the error message: "E-
> > >DataAid has encountered a problem and needs to close."
>
> > >When I try to open the files on Win 7, I get the error message: "E-
> > >DataAid application has stopped working."
>
> > >Has anyone ever experienced this? If so, can the problem be remedied?
>
> > >E-Prime version: 2.0.8.79- Hide quoted text -
>
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