A 4860 Ko WKP

[Vincent]

Hi,

I shut down Usine one hour ago with this big wkp saved before, and worked on an other computer.
Now, I just restart (autoload ON) and what do I see there? An empty one, except of course the master section, with the name of my big one.
Hey, what's wrong now?
OK, I don't close Usine, since it's always saving the wkp, and I look for my wkp on my drive.
Nothing. Not event the old one with the ~.
I also look for "Workspace.wkp" in the application folder: 4 ko...
Where is it gone, I don't know and I don't care: it's just lost.
How is it gone (are they gone), I can't explain, but I would like to.
How can this appen?

Hmm, I know. I'm a stupid guy, ater more than 20 years using all kind of computers, I still don't know how to use them. It must be that. I just can delete the three good files at the same time without touching anything. Anybody to tell me I'm halfwitted?
Ok, now I can close Usine.
For a while, I think.

[maxdis]

Have you tried with an undelete software?

I had a similar problem some weeks ago... a certain workspace was always empty when I loaded it, don't know why... but the files were not deleted, so I managed to restore it from the one with the ~

[nay-seven]

humm , forget to tell it to senso , but once i've had this problem too
the reason was some personnal patch directory i've move and forget to replace...
vincent , have you move some recently...? maybe....

[senso]

just some precisions.
1)when you save a wkp or a patch in usine, the old file is renamed in '-old'.
2)then the new file is rewritten.

If a crash appears during the step 2 you can loose the new file. But if you loose both files (the .wkp and the '-old') it's probably not because of Usine but a Windows or hard disk problem.

[Stefan]

I had this problem several times. I think, it usually happens when an "Internal Error" occurs while saving the WKP. When it happens, usine only displays the message "Internal Error" in the log-section of the UI , so it´s hard to take notice.

If you don´t notice this message and save the workspace a second time, you´re fucked, because usine will replace the valid backup of your wkp with another 0KB-version.

Now I regularly make copies of my workspace and check the logwindow after saving, so not everything is lost. Perhaps usine could alert the user with a popup window when an error occured while saving?