- From: Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] very disappointed
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:23:28 +0100
Am Montag 31 Januar 2005 18:39 schrieb Luca:
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Today I had my first bad surprise after 2 years of daily use of TeXmacs.
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I was working on a document since this morning with the auto-save option
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enabled and I saved it several times. Half an hour ago I finished it and
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decided to run a spell check befor printing it and texmacs crashed
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suddenly. I was not so preocupied as I thought I just had to restart the
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spell check but when I opende again the file it was in this morning state
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with no sign of modification and the autosave file was the one of yesterday
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night.... So all the work lost.... Did anyone experienced this before? I
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don't know what had happend since everything was looking normal before the
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crash.
I think I experience something similar, though it never hit me that hard and
I
cannot really put my finger on what happens.
Seems like the current version (1.0.4.5) has some problem that did not occur
before, but every time I explicitely test it, the 'bug' disappears:
I work on a file, have autosave activated, do manual saves ever so often and
at some time I leave the program (without any notice about unsaved files).
When I check the files on disk, the backup file (*.tm~) contains a recent
version while the main file (*.tm) seems untouched during the whole session.
(It still has the old modify time and the same content as before the session)
When I open texmacs again, of course it opens the old version. If I notice
fast enough and close texmacs before it does an autosave, I can just copy
the .tm~ file to .tm and save the day. If I don't do that, of course, the old
autosave is eventually overwritten and the content lost.
I have TeXmacs running on my notebook, so I strongly doubt any quota or
permission related problems. As I said, the problem does not seem
reproducible. But maybe the changes done in the save/autosave code over the
past few releases might give a clue? The problem definitely only appeared
recently.
Ciao,
Norbert
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