Scrip will not delete

[Schraeter]

I need some help. I am working in FM 8.5 on a Mac. I built a script that I now want to delete. When I hit delete and then click delete again, I get a message that says: "script can not be found or has bene deleted", BUT, it has not been deleted and nothing I have tried works to get it deleted.

How do I get rid of it, or find the preference file and remove that, even if it gets ride of all of them.

Please give me some advice

thanks

jack

[LaRetta]

Jack, via prior reports and personal experience, it usually indicates corruption in your file. Has it ever closed improperly? Have you ever ran Recover on it? Do you have a backup of a good clean copy that you can use instead?

[Schraeter]

I only have a one record in the file so recovery should be easy, or, is there a way to get the whole script file out and replace with a blank one and start over again?

[LaRetta]

Script Maker is part of your design - it can't be replaced. You do NOT want to run Recover - you want to work with a file which has NEVER crashed. If your file ever crashes, toss it and grab a good backup. Obviously, backups should be ran constantly (like every hour) while developing in it. It is NEVER worth the risk to keep a file which has crashed because, you will keep designing and only later find a bad portion and THEN have to trash it and you'll lose a lot of your work (like what has currently happened). Or worse ... you won't ever discover the corruption but your file will crash regularly and continue to damage it further. Not worth it.

Some might feel it is okay to import scripts from a trashed file but this is playing russian roulette.