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

[Oxygen XML Editor Support]

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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