Losing Data... somehow...

[ghost]

I recently switched from Slackware to elementaryOS on my laptop. I installed Quilter and loaded up a file that I have been working on in joe editor. I was at about 12,000 words. Well, I loaded it into Quilter and edited it a little, then hit save. When I went back to add something to the document, there was nothing there. I thought maybe Quilter wasn't loading the file, so I opened it in joe editor and it was completely blank.

So, luckily I had a backup saved on a thumb drive (though without the edits). So not all was lost, but it is giving me serious doubts about using Quilter now. Is there something I am doing wrong perhaps?

[lainsce]

Which version are you using? If it's below 1.9.0, then it might have file related issues like you describe.

[ghost]

It is version 1.9. I'm running it on elementary OS. Something else. I just saved a file manual, overwriting the original. When I went back to it, it was just blank. I'm not exactly sure what is going on. I would have thought that saving and overwriting the original would definitely save the file.

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Which version are you using? If it's below 1.9.0, then it might have file related issues like you describe.

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[ghost]

Is there a program I could use that monitors what the app is doing when I hit save? Like a terminal output or something? I am kind of new to a lot of the GUI programs.

[lainsce]

You could try to record a video of the issue and the steps taken. That'd be awesome for me to understand in which action it does the issue. There are screen recording apps on AppCenter, but off the top of my head I forgot the name of.

[ghost]

Oh! Good idea. I will look for it. Thank you for being so quick to respond! :D

[ghost]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/s1uB4XHDhkZzTSGH6

[lainsce]

Oh, that video is enlightening!

I'll look into the issues shown in the video as soon as possible!

[ghost]

Thank you!

I hope you didn't mind my suggestions during the video. The only text editor experience I really have is nano-editor and joe-editor. I wish I knew Vala, I might be able to help out more.

[lainsce]

UPDATE: This became more difficult than I could do alone, so I'm putting a Help Wanted.

[ghost]

I would be happy to pay a bounty if that is possible.

Also, I wonder if looking at the 'Code' codebase could help?

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UPDATE: This became more difficult than I could do alone, so I'm putting a Help Wanted.

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[lainsce]

The Code codebase uses tabs instead of what Quilter does which is a sidebar, the code for making stuff work is completely different. I'm sure there is a "gotcha" I'm not seeing in my code.

[ghost]

I talked to the tootle dev, bleakgrey about it. He said it when it autosaves, it save everything in temp.md and that might be a place to start looking.

Joe Editor saves temporary files with a '~' in front of the file name. I wonder if there is a way to do that with Quilter. That way all the temp files stay separate.

[ghost]

There is also a thing Joe does when it abruptly gets shutdown called 'DEADJOE' where it saves your whole session, but I suppose that would be a separate issue and/or feature request. Hehehe

[lainsce]

Joe Editor saves temporary files with a '~' in front of the file name. I wonder if there is a way to do that with Quilter. That way all the temp files stay separate.

That's.. it. I'm gonna try doing this.

[lainsce]

I've worked around this with a smarter way to handle files in the sidebar.