Gone forever?

wrothnie — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:56:33 +0000

I spent some hours this morning typing my research into a new Notebook.

I went to save, the spinning beachball/pizza of death thing eventually started happening. I opened Force Quit and, sure enough, Notebook is not responding.

I hadn't done a save before this. I'm using OS10.4.

Anyone know if there is any way I can (a) save the document or (b) whether there is some temporary copy stored somewhere like happens with a Word doc if Word crashes?

Jordan commented

Jordan — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:56:04 +0000

There IS an autosave feature, but I don't remember if it's turned on by default or not... Not much help I'm afraid...

wrothnie commented

wrothnie — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:31:47 +0000

Thanks.

According to my preferences, the autosave feature is checked (well, ticked) and so supposedly saves every 5 minutes - but where?

PennBiologist commented

PennBiologist — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:00:34 +0000

I thought that since you are using Tiger (Mac OS 10.4) you could do a search for ".nb" (Omit the quotes)

I tried to simulate this but NB did not automatically save a previously unsaved file (untitled.nb).

Maybe Jayson could add this as a feature: when autosave is function is checked, prompt user for name to save new document.

PennBiologist commented

PennBiologist — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:02:48 +0000

I think the work-around here is to save the file when you first start a new notebook and then the autosave feature will be initiated.

psalm91158 commented

psalm91158 — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:27:16 +0000

I just started using notebook tonight and saw the following entry in the quickstart pdf document for notebookhope this helps)

By default, NoteBook
saves your Notebooks
in your ~/
Documents/
Notebooks folder.

wrothnie commented

wrothnie — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:43:47 +0000

Thanks.

I don't seem to have a default Notebooks folder in my documents folder (or any other folder for that matter.

I think that George at Penn's warning to save the notebook when you start it so that the automatic saving etc. is triggered is good advice.