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[Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>]

Am Montag 31 Januar 2005 18:39 schrieb Luca:
> 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 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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