Re: [NTLK] Error -48402 in Extras - corrupted system information

Well, with the help of Sonny Hung (thanks!) I've narrowed it down to
corrupted system information. I backed up the internal store to a card
and tried restoring it to a spare newton my husband and I picked up
when they were going cheap in lots of ten. If I restore only the system
information to a clean newton, I get the error. If I restore everything
except the system information to a clean newton, I get no more errors -
but all of my software is unregistered again :-(

I'm googling around to see if there's any way of recovering
registration info from system information or otherwise fixing said
information, but I'd greatly appreciate a pointer (or the news that I'm
SOL and have to dig up my 8-year-old payment information and the
program authors' contact information again) to speed my newton's
recovery.

Thanks to anybody who can offer any help.

-Rhonda

On 22/10/06, Rhonda Hyslop <0x7ff00025@paradox.homeip.net> said:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been having some trouble with my newton lately, and haven't been
> able to find much help from google. I've found what the error number
> means (-48402 Expected a string) but no tips for fixing whatever is
> causing it. I've found mention of that error a couple of times, in the
> Calls app and in NPDS, but not for Extras, which is where I'm seeing
> the error.
>
> If possible, I'd prefer not to do a brainwipe, as I haven't yet needed
> to and I have a lot of software that I bought eight years ago and have
> no idea where or even if I could download them again, what the
> registration codes are - or in the case of some of the extensions, that
> they're installed at all, because they're so seamless and I've been
> using them for so long...
>
> Anyhow, my main problem seems to be that I can't navigate my extras
> drawer. Every time I tap the little diamond to bring up the list of
> folders, I get the error message -48402. I can still use those programs
> in my button bar, and as far as I can see they work fine. I have the
> Newton Underground backdrop, which has a tab bar just above the button
> bar for quick access to my most commonly used extras folders, and I can
> access the Extras drawer through those - mostly. I can't get the
> Unfiled folder in Extras through the tab bar. I suspect that it is the
> Unfiled folder that's causing the problem, or perhaps its name.
>
> Anyhow, I've been freezing programs and extensions every which way,
> trying to track down what's causing it. I now have all my extensions
> frozen as well as those programs that aren't sitting in Unfiled, I've
> hit the newton's reset button a couple of times, and I've even
> unmounted and removed my memory card, but I can't seem to get rid of
> this error.
>
> Has anybody seen this before, or perhaps does anybody have any
> suggestions for things I can try, either to fix it or narrow down what
> it might be?
>
> Thanks...
> -Rhonda
>
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