I think the solution is to buy a larger drive.  I got down to 15 GB free
and got new hardware.

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 7:16 AM Mike Aubury mike@aubit.com wrote:

Awesome..
I have lots of free space on other disks, now, about those scripts I've
lost ;)

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 12:24, Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu wrote:

probably you want to look into the backup directory.
openscad creates backup files every now and then.
this is especially useful when you hit the computer reset button before
safing the design
General question: what's the exact openscad schedule  to create these
backup files ?

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM Mike Aubury mike@aubit.com wrote:

For the scripts you lost the answer is to recover them from your backups...

To get this fixed file a bug report issue on the openscad github.  Posting
here isn't likely to accomplish anything.

On Wed, May 31, 2023, 08:16 Mike Aubury mike@aubit.com wrote:

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 07:24:15AM -0400, Adrian Mariano wrote:

Losing data is never OK. Consider the frustration a cash strapped
student in India will experience when other students fill up the
network share while she's working on an openscad design.

It is reasonably simple to program: If oldfile > 0 bytes, move to
$currentfile.scad.bak and then write $currentfile.scad. Almost every
other program does something like this.

Roger. 

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On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:01:38AM -0400, Adrian Mariano wrote:

I make daily backups. For a fun project I might be designing and
tweaking it for several hours, having started from scratch...

Roger. 

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I store all my work on Google Drive so that it is Google's problem to keep
it safe and accessible from both of my homes. Google keeps some history, so
sometimes I can retrieve older versions.

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 13:57, Rogier Wolff R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl wrote:

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:10:37PM +0100, nop head wrote:

The way you or I (*) work doesn't matter. Someone "being reasonable"
and hitting "save" every 10 minutes or so should not be able to lose 8
hours or work by hitting "save" at the end of the day while the the
disk has filled up.

Someone mentioned a backup directory. Most other programs use a
different extension of the file to indicate the backup. So that is
so unexpected that people end up "losing their data" instead of
using the openscad backup.

IIRC, I ran into this a long while ago, and people mentioned the
backup directory. I'd forgotten about it by... today. I'd have started
writing the replacement from memory by the time the mailing list tells
me to look in the backup dirctory.

Roger. 

(*) I use an external editor that does the move old version, write new
version and when writing the new version doesn't work I get an error
and get to resulve the issue. So I have auto-preview enabled and to
view a new preview I hit save in the other editor.

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Of course losing data is not OK, but my experience suggests that waiting
for fixes to appear in OpenSCAD is not a great way to solve your problems.
The behavior of erasing the edit buffer when the save fails seems
particularly pernicious and bizarre. I also use an external editor, and
that is a good way to address this problem right away.  But I would not
trust software in general to do something reasonable if you run out of disk
space.

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 08:53 Rogier Wolff R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl wrote: