Roger.

I think the bug happens because when you save it updates the file's date, so the auto reload sees the new date and loads it again. On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 18:24, Adrian Mariano <avm4@cornell.edu> wrote: > 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: > >> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 07:24:15AM -0400, Adrian Mariano wrote: >> > I think the solution is to buy a larger drive. I got down to 15 GB free >> > and got new hardware. >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 7:16 AM Mike Aubury <mike@aubit.com> wrote: >> > >> > > I've had this a few times >> > > OpenSCAD version 2021.01 >> > > >> > > When I save an openscad script, if the drive has run out of disk space >> > > then the file obviously doesn't get saved, but also, it deletes >> > > everything in the editor (as if its tried to read back what was >> written) >> > > >> > > That means - as well as potentially overwriting what was a good >> script on >> > > disk with a file of zero bytes, I also have no script that I can save >> > > elsewhere! >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > OpenSCAD mailing list >> > > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OpenSCAD mailing list >> > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> >> >> -- >> ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** https://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2049110 >> ** >> ** Delftechpark 11 2628 XJ Delft, The Netherlands. KVK: 27239233 >> ** >> f equals m times a. When your f is steady, and your m is going down >> your a is going up. -- Chris Hadfield about flying up the space shuttle. >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >