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Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:37 pm Post subject: Recovery function

I was just making a nice file manager, when I made a wrong repeat loop, and all my coding was gone. After that I got the idea of letting VDS have a recovery function, just like Microsoft Word has. That way non-saved files could be recovered as well... Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

There is an auto-save function, save before run function, etc...

I have these enabled as well as I make backups of my code all along the
way... Smile

See if there's a *.~dsc file in the directory where you were working on
your script.

vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:08 pm Post subject:

Hi All,
VDS 5 deletes your *.~dsc files to the Recycle Bin. So even if you have made many many changes to your files a back up can be retrieved from the Recycle Bin. Of course this depends on how offten you have your PC set to purge the recycle bin Wink

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:14 pm Post subject:

Yes I know, but I mean a function like that for file which aren't saved (yet). I often make the beginning of a program without saving, because I first want to look if it's a good idea... But sometimes things go wrong, and I lose my code... Sad

If something like this happens with Word, it will automatic recover the text, if it is saved or not. This is what I want to see in VDS... Smile

vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject:

Hi Skit,
It sounds like you want the Autosave like FF mentioned but it will not automaticly bring back up the text. Also if you are not saving as you go then I don't know how you have been able to get anything done Wink

I never trust my PC or myself that well to think I could code something that is not going to break and take a chance at loosing stuff. Hmmmm maybe it is just me or where I live but here in America our PC's don't work that well Laughing

I am always saving as I go and I was taught to do so.
I wander why M$ didn't put that feature in the IDE's for their languages. Well at least I have not seen it in them. It may be there and I just have not discovered it yet. I know that most IDE's make 2 copies of your source code as you work but I have never seen any that would automaticly try to restore from the backup when the IDE is reopened after a crash? It sounds like a cool feature though but even if it was implemented I would still not trust it and always save as I go.
IMHO that is a bad habit you have gotten into and very counter productive...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:22 pm Post subject:

Perhaps Skit does it for kicks!!

Ya know, some people will go jumping off bridges, others will run red lights at 100 mph, and still others
may write a couple of hundred lines of code without saving and just press that "Run Script" button to see
if the code breaks.. Laughing

Dread

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject:

I used to watch movies for that... Laughing

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Why not just write a VDS script to do this? Wink

Skit3000 · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:55 am Post subject:

Then I have to run that script every time I run VDS... Well, I'll just save until there is a good solution... Wink

Dr. Dread · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:33 am Post subject:

You could also create a small program that launches VDS and plugs into the IDE DDE interface. Then
you could make it issue a FILESAVE command every x minutes to a time-stamped filename of your
choosing. At close-down it could do some kind of householding, like deleting all but the 10 latest
saves for that project, zip 'em up etc.

Greetz
Dread

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

That's kind of what I was thinking: When you click the shortcut, launch
a VDS program that launches VDS.EXE and uses VDS 5's DDE capabilities
to auto-save it. I like your ideas Dr. Dread... perhaps we should make
this an open-source tool, and everybody can help develop it! Smile