A curious thing...[Resolved]

[bogs]

I am curious if anyone else is experiencing (or has experienced) this.

I had fresh installed a 'nix desktop, and Lc 9.0.1 to answer a question here on the forums. I opened a project that was created in Lc 6.5.2, which is started by a basic 'launcher' standalone that was compiled in 6.5.2.

I then copied some code, and closed the IDE. I didn't modify anything in the stack, and clicked on 'Don't Save' in the dialog when I closed the IDE.

I later finished setting up the 'nix install, and started experiencing issues with the program I had opened in 9.x starting where it had been running fine on this fresh install before opening in 9.x.

I then tried to open it in Lc 6.5.2 to see if there was an issue with the code I had previously missed somehow. Imagine my surprise when 6.5.2 could not open this stack (file is not a stack error), but 8.x and 9 opened it with no issue.

I then opened it in 8.x and 9.x and clicked on save as. I have the preferences set to save legacy stacks back as the format they were written in, and it correctly identified the legacy format as 5.5. I saved it as that overwriting the file, and then tried to open it in 6.5.2, and it failed to open it again

To me, it looks like just opening a file in 9.x somehow changed the format of the file in such a way that it could no longer be read by the version it was created in.

I always have redundant copies of my projects around, so it didn't cost me any more time than restoring the backup (which again worked fine and was open-able in 6.5.x), but I think it is odd enough to investigate or at least mention here, because I am quite sure this would not be the expected behavior.

If someone else has input on this, I'd sure like to hear it. If no one else does, I'll be submitting a bug report later.

[bogs]

No one else has seen this happen? I'm beginning to feel like Donkey from Shrek

*Edit - I see something similar to this has happened previously when saving a stack and has been fixed previously, so it looks like a regression, except I saw this merely opening a stack.

Previous Bug Reports -
16992

[bogs]

After some further testing, I did find that even though I have save to legacy format setup properly, the oldest version v9.x saves back to is v7.x

Even manually saving as legacy 5.5 doesn't allow the stack to be opened in 6.x. so I submitted a bug report 21645.

Some other odd things I noted during testing -
Creating a new blank stack in v6.x and following this route doesn't produce this issue, so I am guessing that it has something to do with a control that is causing this.

*Edit - Panos straightened me out, I had a 'save this stack' line in the closeStack handler that apparently came back to bite me. I do have the save stack as version set in the prefs though, so it is still odd that it is saving it back as a v7.x format instead of 5.5

*Edit 2 - Panos straightened me out again, I needed to add the specific version to save in at the end of that line ~

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save this stack with format 5.5