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In Case of Trouble...

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     Free Text is designed to keep you out of trouble, but sometimes the unexpected happens.  If you get stuck, or see a message about a “...fatal error...” of some sort, you should quit from HyperCard, immediately *reboot* your Macintosh, and then look around.  Did you run out of disk space while building an index?  (That is the commonest kind of error.)  Did you try to reindex a changed database file without first discarding the old indices?  Do you have anything unusual about your system that might have caused a bad interaction with Free Text?  Were you trying to index or browse a file that was already open, such as one of the Free Text stacks itself?
 
     After a crash, especially while index-building, you may be left with a large number of temporary index files on your disk, with strange names:  “z0k0”, “z2p17”, etc.  It may take the Finder a long time to even open the folder where your index-building was taking place.  Be patient, and trash all such files before trying to build any further indices.  (You can use the Free Text “Delete Files” button to get rid of them if you like.)