-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> > Calum Polwart wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 17:33 +0000, ljedi at comcast.net wrote: > > > >> Hello, I'm new to the list, so be kind. I have already searched the bug > archives and found nothing like this problem -- I have been using Scribus > for > about a year with only minor problems. HOWEVER, yesterday I modified a > document, repeatedly saving changes using the disk icon throughout the day. > But > when I opened the document this morning, none of my changes were there -- > just > the old document I had started with yesterday. Since I put about 8 hours of > work into it, my hope is that someone will know how best to recover this lost > data, or at least know what happened. Does anyone have any advice? > >> > >> BTW, in the past, all modified documents have loaded fine with all changes > intact. > >> > >> Thanks for any advice! > >> > > > > Strange. I don't garuntee to be of help but 3 things to check which at > > least means they are done for when someone who knows what they are > > talking bout picks this up! > > > > 1. scribus creates a working backup file called .bak so you have a file > > called myfile.sla.bak - check it out it may have your changes in it. > > (renamne it to mybackupfile.sla and open it as normal) > > > > 2. if scribus crahses (at least on linux) it tries to save an extra > > backup file to myfile.sla.emergency again change this to myemergency.sla > > and open as a normal sla file and you will see where it saved it. > > > > 3. Could scribus have saved it in the 'wrong' directory - try searching > > your whole machine for *.sla and see if anything from yesterday comes > > up. > > > Scribus has this way sometimes of saving to unexpected locations. Some > hints might come from looking in File > Open Recent. Unless you've saved > a bunch of other files, it should be in that list. > Also check default settings in File > Preferences to see where files > could go. > > Greg
Thanks for all your help, everyone -- I tried all of your suggestions, but no luck. I am quite thrilled to know of some of these options, however. I think the document is gone -- while searching the archives, I came across a thread regarding the "save/don's save" text box and how unclear it is which button to press, and I have a dim memory of seeing this before I closed the document. I must have pressed the equivalent of "don't save." Why the document wasn't saving throughout the modification progress is still a mystery. If anyone is curious, I am running 64-bit Ubuntu, so that may have something to do with it. I have since started putting everything back into the document, and everything seems to be saving now (of course, I am making multiple backups now every time I save. Paranoid? Nah....) Thank you so much for your help! L
