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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> 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.

The code for saving/loading did not change for about five months at least.
So it is very unlikely that the problem appeared recently. I never experienced
it myself and I work every day with the latest version of TeXmacs...
So if there is something to correct, then it would be good to find
a way to reproduce the bug...