Application crashes and file corrupts on save - loose all data not just changes

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Saving the file. 
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Saved file would be nice - or at least just loose the changes not the 
whole file.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
3.1.0 on XP Pro SP2

Please provide any additional information below.
Happened several times to me - I'm about ready to stop using the software 
which is terrible because it's great. I just can't justify the time re-
doing my work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonathan.ian.porter on 9 Mar 2009 at 8:58

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sorry should be version 3.0.1

Original comment by jonathan.ian.porter on 9 Mar 2009 at 9:00

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Sorry for the inconvenience. We are planning on bring out crash recovery in 
3.0.3.
But the real good news is that we have finally figured out the cause of crashes 
with
memory issues, and you're expected to see the bug fixed in next release. Thanks 
to
all of you that have taken care!

Original comment by frankshaka on 26 Apr 2009 at 1:48

• Changed state: Started

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Hi there, thanks for starting to work on this problem. 

Just want to add that the crash recovery does not kick in, if XMind crashes 
while saving the file (at least, it doesn't for me) due to a 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. In this case, the existing file I tried to save to 
did contain zero bytes after the crash. So manual recovery seems out of the 
question.  

Actually, saving first to some temporary file (like filename.xmind.tmp), then 
renaming the target file (say to filename.old.xmind), then renaming the 
temporary file to target filename (filename.xmind) would do it for me -- until 
you guys come up with some real solution (I understand that you are 
ridiculously busy :). This way users could simply press CTRL-S every other 
change obtaining some sort of data safety (assuming a successful save implies 
that all the data was indeed saved, which always was the case for me in the 
past).

And, if I may be so bold to ask: can you please put some notification into this 
issue if you release a version of XMind, which fixes the problem (or at 
least improves XMinds data safety). I would really like to start working with 
the software again!

Original comment by Sebastia...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2009 at 8:59

Attachments:

• hs_err_pid3472.log

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I'm reading this now. I suppose there is no solution for my probem after 2 
years.

Original comment by raiwil on 29 Apr 2011 at 3:19

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Now is 2013 and the problem still persists. I lost all day's work and the file 
size is 0.

I won't use XMind any more.

Original comment by sta...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 7:58

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Same happen to me today and PC was working well... no crash, nothing.
There isn't any temporary file I can get somewhere to get back my document ?

Original comment by coverla...@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2013 at 10:46