Wait, 5pm *PST*? That's not right. But it got me thinking. I suspect that the problem is an imperfect storm of GD and DST. Are you continuously connected to the net? Did your laptop automatically update the time over the weekend? Did you use the laptop over the weekend? I'm thinking that when you first started writing to the disk it did so with a timestamp that was an hour behind. GD then thought the file in the cloud was newer. So GD wrote over your file. Unless you double-checked the timestamp yourself and/or reloaded the TW file, you wouldn't know that it had happened.
That's my theory any way. Some variety of that. Well, hopefully it won't happen again for another 10 years. Or at least until Oct. 26. -- Mark On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:23:07 PM UTC-7, passingby wrote: > > There is a first time for everything. I lost data worth a few hours today. > Its not the end of the world but I am at my wits end as to how it happened. > I am sharing this to find out if you have any strange explanations or if it > has happened to you like this ever. > Here are the facts of the case: > > 1. I am on windows 10, chrome browser which I just checked, is up-to-date. > 2. I was using the default saver, and I was over writing my file on the > disk. > 3. The file was physically located in Google drive folder, which is in > sync all the time > 4. I had been making notes since morning and periodically I pressed the > save button and overwrote the local file. > 5. I remember the dialog box warning for overwriting coming up, and I > saying yes to it. I remember the sound of the warning too. (this makes me > feel sure that I did save my file a couple of times at least) > 6. At around 5pm PST, I closed the browser and shut down my laptop > because my brain was fatigued and I thought I should move around a bit > 7. I came back to the room after about half an hour and started my laptop. > 8. When I opened my TW it had only one tiddler in it and that was the very > first one from early afternoon. No other tiddlers were there. > 9. I checked the local file time stamp and it had 12.30pm ! > 10. I was dumbfounded! I went to my google drive on web and check the file > version. There were none after 12.30pm! > 11. I searched my chrome history to see if I accidentally was working on > any other TW simultaneously with a similar name. Nope, nothing. > 12. I searched my windows machine to see if I could find any local file I > worked on. None. > > So what happened? The only explanation is that I did not save at all. This > I am not ready to accept. I definitely saved a couple of times. But > timestamp on my file as well as google driver version time says last > modification was 12.30 pm. This is very strange. > At one time during my workflow I pulled out the TW tab from my chrome and > made it into separate window. And about an hour later I merged all the tabs > back. I do not know, but I am suspecting maybe that splitting and merging > did something. > > Well, the data was lost. That's okay. > > Assuming that I did press the save button and followed the process, is it > in any way possible that Chrome did not overwrite the local file? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fabf1f50-4b8d-4c34-ae44-0802aac54978%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
