On Wed, 23 May 2007, Max Bölhoff wrote:
When I first started using gretl last autumn I had an issue that
one day I could no more open the session file of a project I had
been working on over the course of several days. Now, with
version 1.6.5 (Windows), exactly the same has happened again,
and when I look through the files in the Documents and Settings
folder as well as the one where I saved the session file, only
the latter has actually been saved when I last did so, but the
supporting files in the Documents and Settings folder are old
and imcomplete, meaning that several save commands have failed?!
There was a substantial change in the mechanism for saving
sessions with gretl version 1.6.0 of September 2006. In the
current setup there should be no "supporting files" lying around
separately. There should be a single .gretl file, which is
actually a zip archive, containing "session.xml" among other
files.
If you have a .gretl file that won't open, could you please send
me a copy?
It's a known issue that current gretl will not properly handle
session files that were saved using gretl 1.5.1 or earlier,
although in this case it will likely be possible to recover the
session. The old .gretl file is a script. If one renames it as
an .inp file and opens it as a script, then (perhaps with a little
editing) it should do the job of rebuilding the session.
Allin Cottrell