Stacy,
Sorry -- I simply can't recreate this problem. I took this file added a record to make it 201 records (to force 3 pages) and no matter how I edit the records, the resulting file stays at 201 records.
I guess I'd have to ask if you are on the most current version of MarcEdit -- and if not, I'd update. If you are -- you may consider uninstalling and reinstalling because something may not have been registered correctly. There was a problem noted in the listserv earlier that would cause edits to be dropped when working with them -- and even, files to be truncated during certain conditions -- specifically using save as in the paging mode. But to my knowledge, those issues have been corrected. If other people are seeing something like this occurring -- I'll need specific instructions and files for recreating it because at this point, I simply cannot.
--TR
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> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Truncating file issue - example attached
>
> Every now and again, I start editing a file that validates, only to
> find the file mysteriously truncating. For example, the attached file
> has 255 records. If I do a Delete Field and delete the field:
> 099, it reports that 255 fields were deleted, and there are still 3
> pages of records indicated. However, if I then save the file, the file
> instantly reports that there are only 2 pages of records and there will
> now be only 200 records if I do a field count or perform any add/delete
> of a field.
>
> I don't know what's causing it. I found that if I did no editing but
> compiled the file into MARC format, and then opened the resulting MRC
> file, there would be 255 records, but the first record in the batch
> would no longer validate and the field numbers were mustly messed up
> (but only in that first record). I edited the MRK file in a text
> editor to fix the field numbers, and then the file stayed as 255
> records without any problems.
>
> This is the third or fourth file I've worked with that did this
> mysterious thing of truncating down to the next nearest 100 records.
> One of the files that did this would do it multiple times, going from
> over 400 records down to 400, then down to 300.
>
> Example attached. (If it's too large and gets screened out by the
> listserv, I can resend it privately.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> Manhattan College Library
> Riverdale, NY 10471
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