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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hello Luca,

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Luca wrote:
> Today  I had my first bad surprise after 2 years of daily use of TeXmacs.
> I was working on a document since this morning with the auto-save option
> enabled and I saved it several times. Half an hour ago I finished it and
> decided to run a spell check befor printing it and texmacs crashed suddenly.
> I was not so preocupied as I thought I just had to restart the spell
> check but when I opende again the file it was in this morning state with
> no sign of modification and the autosave file was the one of yesterday
> night.... So all the work lost.... Did anyone experienced this before?
> I don't know what had happend since everything was looking normal before
> the crash.

I am very sorry, but this sounds quite strange to me. Are you able to
reliably reproduce this bug, in which case I will do my best to correct
it as soon as possible?

Even when something went wrong during the auto-saving, I still do not
understand why the harddisk version did not change when you explicitly
saved the file several times. Can there be something wrong with your
quota or write permissions?

> Any hint on how to recover the file?
> I think that a bug like this one should be absolutly eliminated... How
> can I track such situation?

If it really is a bug, then I agree? In principle, as soon as your file
has a valid name "blah.tm", then autosaving regularly takes place in
"blah.tm~". But things may go wrong when you change permissions or
when the directory which contains your file is physically moved.
In that case, the status bar should contain an error message though
when you attempt to save your document (also for autosaving, I believe).

> It look like something veryu strange a full day saying that the document
> was saved without having write a single bit....
> I hope we can figure out what happend

So do I, --Joris