Re: autosave

[Emery Snyder esnyder@xxxxxxxx]

Look at your settings.dfl or use the menus and see what directory you set
as the autoback directory: the files will be there with names like
"AUTOSAV1.TMP". There are usually 3.

At 06:49 PM 11.3.1999 -0500, you wrote:
>This morning when I called up a file I worked on yesterday, I found that
>all of the revisions I made on the document yesterday were gone -- about
>seven hours work. At the end of the day I wasn't able to quit xywrite
>properly because the cursor had frozen but I'm quite sure that I saved the
>work frequently as I went along. Even if I hadn't, however, isn't
>"autosave" supposed to do it for me? (I have it set at something like 2
>minutes because I'm so paranoid about losing stuff..) When I looked in
>xy4\docs the document did not reflect the changes I made yesterday either
>-- in fact, the time on the document was 2:01 pm which is the time I
>started working on it.
>
>-- My operating system is Windows 95
>-- I work on Xywrite version 4.011 which I run in DOS (I know it's
>considered buggy but I've been wanting to finish my current project before
>I change and I haven't had this problem before.)
>
>I can't imagine that it matters but my computer is a Fujitsu Lifebook.
>
>Do I misunderstand what "autosave" actually does? Or, is something clearly
>malfunctioning? I have been having more problems with "freezing" lately. Is
>it possible that my revised document is somewhere to be found?
>
>Thank you for any assistance you might be able to provide. 
>