Manindra29
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10 years ago Now fixed in version 1.0.4b. My sincere apologies for your data loss. It was wrong of me to release an untested feature without adding an option to enable/disable it. I've learnt a lesson and I shall ensure this sort of thing doesn't happen again in the future.
Note that PDE X 1.0.4b requires Processing 2.1.2 or above
Problem description:
Auto-save runs randomly and cannot be configured or controlled manually (Originally designed this way ?) Whenever auto-save is on, it will disable manual saves - it just don't work ! Also, sometimes when you tries to save your work and there will be an error comes out which says "No such no such file or directory". If it happens, your work will lost and most strangely, be replaced by a past copy that is randomly saved that you may not even know it existed. Worse, once it happened, even if there is no error coming out while you are manually saving your work, your work shall not be save properly. Example: Your were coding(no manual saving) at around 22:07, manually saved and closed your work 22:10. When you opened it again at 22:15, you find it lost and replaced by what your were writing around 22:07 or even earlier.
It seems to be an old problem and currently there still seems to be no solution to this issue. Please refers to #44 processing/processing-experimental#44
I updated to 2.1.2 this morning and came across with this problem. I tried to return to 2.1.1 to fix it but the problem remains. My several works have been ruined and currently I have to monitor in the Finder if there is a auto-saved copy came out or not so that I must copy-and-paste my work to other editors to keep it.
Is there any way to fix it soon ? Cause it's DESPERATELY ANNOYING that you can't properly save your work.