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Re: autosave

Reply to note from nikki meredith  Thu, 11
Mar 1999 18:49:39 -0500

-> 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?

Ouch. Issue this command: VA/NV AOP. It should return (on the
PRompt line) a path and filename, for instance,
C:\S\XY4\TMP\AUTOSAV1.TMP. Switch to that directory and call a
DIRectory of all AUTOSAV?.TMP files. These are your autosave
backups (the number in the filename corresponds to the window number
you were working in). With any luck, one of them will be the file
you want, with your revisions intact.

Is this only happening in XyWrite, or are other programs
malfunctioning as well? If the latter, it could be a sign of
incipient disk failure, in which case it's time for a last-ditch
full backup, to salvage what data you can....

Good luck! Let us know what happens.

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Carl Distefano
CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/