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Re: Get["file.mx"] doesn't work

From	DrMajorBob <btreat1@austin.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Get["file.mx"] doesn't work
Date	2011-05-19 11:42 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<ir2vml$h14$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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Wow. Take away message? NEVER save to .mx format. EVER.

Too many things can go wrong.

Bobby

On Wed, 18 May 2011 06:14:29 -0500, Scot T. Martin  
<smartin@seas.harvard.edu> wrote:

> To add to what Albert writes, somewhat surprisingly to me the .mx format  
> also depends on the storage medium. That is, when using the same machine  
> (i.e., control therefore on OS and 32/64-bit), I have made .mx files and  
> stored that to my local hard drive. I then copy those files over to a  
> network drive, which I believe is Linux but appears to me just as a  
> mapped network drive within Windows. The .mx files then no longer work.  
> I have to re-run and generate the .mx files directly to the network  
> drive.
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Albert Retey [awnl@gmx-topmail.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:48
> To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
> Subject:   Re: Get["file.mx"] doesn't work
>
> Am 16.05.2011 13:28, schrieb Martin Vavpoti==C4==8D:
>> My computer broke. I installed Mathematica on a laptop and I wanted to
>> load the calculations I already made. I used the Get command and I got
>> this:
>>
>> File Lensing_08_118_06_1e-3.mx cannot be loaded, it is corrupted or is
>> written on a different machine
>>
>> Does this mean my backed up files are no good on a different computer?
>> Do I need to make those files all over again?
>
> mx, as the documentation says, is a machine and version dependent
> format, it depends e.g. on OS and also differs for e.g. 32 vs. 64 bit
> machines. It also does differ between various versions of mathematica. I
> think your best bet is to find a machine with the same OS and Processor
> type as your old machine running the same Mathematica version as your
> old computer and convert to something machine independent, e.g. wdx.
> Maybe in the future you also want to use machine independent formats,
> although they are a little less efficient. Of course it could also be
> that your files got corrupted, your old computer might have written
> nonsense to disk before completley breaking down...
>
> hth,
>
> albert
>
>


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