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Save your work!

Post by lithium630 » Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:35 am

LiveCode is periodically force closing on my. When it does, it doesn't save the work I've done. The first time (before I learned my lesson about saving frequently) I lost several hours of work. Just a warning to my fellow noobs.

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Re: Save your work!

Post by FourthWorld » Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:59 am

Do you have a recipe for this?
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Re: Save your work!

Post by LCNeil » Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:40 am

Dear lithium630,

I'm sorry to hear of the issue you are experiencing.

As Richard mentioned, if you are able to replicate the issue with a recipe please contact us via support@runrev.com and we will be able to advise further.

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Re: Save your work!

Post by lithium630 » Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:44 am

Thanks for the replies. Two times that I recall was while I was creating buttons with images. I'm not sure exactly what point it closed. I'll try to replicate it.

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Re: Save your work!

Post by MarcVanCauwenberghe » Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:25 pm

This is so true!!! :(

Just lost a couple of hours work. This was after I set the layer of a graphic object to 1. Running 6.1.1-rc-2
There should be an autosave option to a temp file.
I am so @%§lo!j# with myself and a little bit with Livecode also.
Ah well, second time always takes less time they say.

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Re: Save your work!

Post by jacque » Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:00 pm

There is a plugin in the Development->Plugins menu called "revSmartSave". If you keep that running, it will auto-save for you at an interval you set.
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Re: Save your work!

Post by MarcVanCauwenberghe » Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:46 pm

Thank you Jacque. Found it. Is there anyway I can set it to start with LC?

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Re: Save your work!

Post by jacque » Sat Aug 17, 2013 6:45 pm

Not by itself. You'd need to have a script in a custom library that opens it. You can make your own plugin stack that contains a script that is inserted into back that does it, then set it up in the Plugin Settings to start automatically when LiveCode launches.

That's probably a bigger topic for another thread.
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Re: Save your work!

Post by bn » Sat Aug 17, 2013 8:25 pm

Marc,

if you choose Plugins from the development menu at the bottom of the list there is a menu item "Plugin Settings"
go there

at the top choose revSmartSave

then click "Open Plugin when" -> "Revolution starts up"

That way it will start right away when you start LiveCode. At start revSmartSave reverts to "never" so you have to choose your saving interval.

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Re: Save your work!

Post by Simon » Sat Aug 17, 2013 8:29 pm

hmmm... I probably misunderstood but.
From the plugin dropdown select "Plugin Settings" (at the bottom) from that window use the dropdown to select revSmartSave and then select "Open plugin when: Revolution starts up"

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Re: Save your work!

Post by MarcVanCauwenberghe » Sat Aug 17, 2013 8:40 pm

OK, thanks

got it. Working now. Every 10 seconds. ;)


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Re: Save your work!

Post by jacque » Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:08 pm

Oops. Thanks Bernd. I forgot about that setting and it's much easier than my solution.
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