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Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
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Carsten Dominik |
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Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:06:28 +0100 |
On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Sebastien Vauban <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rainer Stengele wrote:
>> last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines)
>> org file.
>> 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted.
>> WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the
>> corrupted structures.
>> Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore
>> now became headlines.
>> I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason
>> somehow.
>> Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from
>> subversion and insert the changes since the corruption.
>>
>> This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent
>> mode.
>> Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure
>> all is running well.
>>
>> Maybe someone has an idea.
>>
>> I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.
>
> Last week, I also "lost" contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code,
> published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN...
>
> That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT.
> But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it
> occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the
> dev trunk.
This is great advice, in particular while testing fundamental changes like the
caching mechanism. git-up everybody!
- Carsten
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
- [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Rainer Stengele, 2013/12/02
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Sebastien Vauban, 2013/12/02
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file,
Carsten Dominik <=
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Alexander Baier, 2013/12/02
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Nicolas Richard, 2013/12/02
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Johann Spies, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Alexander Baier, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Johann Spies, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Alexander Baier, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Nick Dokos, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Alexander Baier, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Nick Dokos, 2013/12/03
- Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file, Sebastien Vauban, 2013/12/03