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[Tolga]

Where are calculated fields stored?

I was working on some complicated calculated field definitions but it broke MC. It is consistently crashing at startup now. Since the last backup I also made significant changes to file paths. I want to see if I can merge new filepaths in db with old calculated field definitions.

[glynor]

In the Library.

There's no documented way to restore only part of the library from backup.

[Tolga]

yes, but what file in library? Maybe if  I replace only that file ...

[glynor]

yes, but what file in library? Maybe if  I replace only that file ...

No idea.

That would be a brave move indeed.  I think Alex figured some of that stuff out once before, but that was many versions ago.

[Tolga]

Ok, the calculated fields are stored in mediafiles.jmd and I fixed my library editing the binary file directly. No general lessons there...

However, two features would be great to prevent an issue like this:

1) recursion check for calculated features (This was the problem).
2) import/export calculated fields to an editable format. The latter would also greatly reduce programming time for calculated features and will make them easier share.

[Matt]

1) recursion check for calculated features (This was the problem).

Could you give a simple example on how to create recursion that leads to a crash?

Thanks.