John335 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 This is the message I get when I Iaunch Accordance. What can I do about this? I'm running Accordance version 8.4.2 w/ Mac OS X 10.5.8. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 The file may be corrupt. You can try replacing it with a backup or simply renaming it so Accordance creates a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpkang Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 In case you or anyone else needs to know where this file is, it's located in ~/Library/Preferences/Accordance Preferences (where ~ is your home directory). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John335 Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 That exactly what I needed to do. Thanks to both of you. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Foster Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 (edited) Hi Guys, I'm currently having a similar problem but don't have my old backups with me where I am so I am going to need some help. When I clicked on a passage to highlight it, accordance crashed. I got the crash report and clicked reopen. Then a box popped up with the message "An attempt to read or save data beyond the end of the file 'My highlights.hlt' has failed". Now every time I try to open accordance I simply get this message... I'm GMT +2 right now and really need to get this solved so I'm hoping someone on this side of the world is up and at it! Thanks... David PS- I don't yet have mountain lion and I'm running the most current version of Accordance (9.6.4) Edited August 7, 2012 by D. C. Foster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 I suggest you go to your user/Documents/Accordance Files and rename the Highlights folder. See if that fixes it. If not you can email or message me your contact information, preferably Skype or iChat, and I can take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Foster Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Thanks Helen, it worked... but now I've lost all my highlights, both the ones I defined in the highlights box and the ones in the text itself. Just wondering what I should do to get them back? Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 You can put the files back one by one, restart Accordance, and see which one caused the crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Foster Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Sorry Helen, which files do I put back? And where do I put them back? I changed the name of the highlights folder but didn't delete anything. As for the files inside the folder, I only saw 3 files in my highlights folder, 1 is the main 'highlights', the other 2 are 'mistake' highlights had created a long time ago when I was just starting out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Try putting back the main one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Foster Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 I put the main one back into the new file that I renamed (there are now two highlights folders)... the first time I clicked on accordance it came up with the message and quit but then the second time it worked perfect? Highlights are all back and no crashes yet. Should I do something to prevent this from happening in the future or is this a one time glitch? Thanks again for your time, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 You can remove the old folder now. Accordance is now able to repair corrupt Highlight files so I suspect that's what it did. You should keep a backup of the file, though, if you have invested a lot of time in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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