[oXygen-user] Any way to recover in-memory files?

[David Sewell]

Thanks, Adrian. I will set up automatic save.

The good news is that I realized that the code I wrote yesterday was an 
incomplete solution anyway, so I need to rewrite it no matter what. (Well, 
that's sort of good news.)

David

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Oxygen XML Editor Support wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Unfortunately Oxygen does not have a contingency plan for this situation, at 
> least not after the event happened. The content of the opened files is 
> modified in memory and there is no backup or temporary copy on disk of this 
> content, if the file was not saved. So if the GUI is stuck, you cannot 
> retrieve the content unless the application finishes doing whatever it is 
> that it is trying to do or fails.
>
> In theory, for mission critical files you could probably connect to Oxygen 
> with a Java debugger and sweep through the Java objects in Oxygen's memory 
> until you find the one that holds the file you wanted to rescue. But this is 
> a bit overkill and will probably only yield results for smaller files, which 
> are not severely chunked in memory.
>
> A way to prevent such situations (which we hope are rare) is to activate the 
> automatic save feature from: Options > Preferences, Editor > Open/Save, 
> Enable automatic save. You can also adjust the save interval. This way you 
> will at least have a copy of the file saved a few minutes before the 
> application got stuck.
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
>
> Adrian Buza
> oXygen XML Editor and Author Support
>
> Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202
> Fax: +40-251-461482
> support at oxygenxml.com
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
>
> David Sewell wrote:
>> oXygen users,
>> 
>> I'm running oXygen 13.2 on a Mac. I was in the middle of editing a long XML 
>> file and did a global search-and-replace that had the effect of creating 
>> ill-formed XML. Now oXygen is spinning endlessly, running one core at 100% 
>> CPU, apparently trying to parse the file.
>> 
>> I was also editing some XQuery code in a couple of tabs that I had not 
>> saved to disk yet. oXygen won't let me open those tabs as it is trying to 
>> complete its Find/Replace. Any ideas on how I can retrieve the code? If I 
>> force-quit the oXygen process, would the data be written anywhere that it 
>> could be retrieved?
>> 
>> this is not mission-critical but if there is a way to retrieve the content 
>> it would be nice.
>> 
>> DS
>> 
>>
>> 
>
>
>

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