The little backup battery on my MacBook is clearly shot. My computer ran out of power and “blip” went dark. I had freeway launched with an important site open. And now I can not find the freeway file. It is not in the recently opened file list. When I search on .freeway - it does not appear on my hard drive. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way to download my hosted site and recreate the freeway files? I installed timemachine not that long ago and have had trouble with it (it mysteriously deleted 5 gig of files from my drive) so I had it disabled. Any suggestions to clear my mind would be most welcomed.
Jan
Freeway also saves a backup file which may help. Look for
yourfilename.fwbackup,
Freeway is a code generator and you cannot directly recreate the
Freeway files from the hosted site files.
HTH Colin
On 18 Mar 2010, at 14:16, jan smoot wrote:
The little backup battery on my MacBook is clearly shot. My computer
ran out of power and “blip” went dark. I had freeway launched with
an important site open. And now I can not find the freeway file. It
is not in the recently opened file list. When I search on .freeway -
it does not appear on my hard drive. Has anyone else had this
problem? Is there a way to download my hosted site and recreate the
freeway files? I installed timemachine not that long ago and have
had trouble with it (it mysteriously deleted 5 gig of files from my
drive) so I had it disabled. Any suggestions to clear my mind would
be most welcomed.
Jan
I looked for backups as well. Last I found was dated Feb 15. I have updated in many times since then. I am now thinking this is not the first site I have lost in the manner. I lost another site and blamed it on my backup drive, but now I’m thinking Freeway ate it. When does Freeway do a backup? Guess I need to seriously rethink how I am doing things.
You create a file. → no backup is made, naturally.
You save that file. → no backup is made.
You close the file.
You open the file again. → backup is made of the state of the site
at that moment
You make changes, save those changes, etc. → backup remains
unchanged
You crash.
Backup retains its original state, as of the moment you last opened
the file successfully.
Freeway is very conservative in where it places its backup points. It
is aiming for a “last known good” version, as opposed to “how it was a
moment ago”. Where this catches most people out is when they expect
(quite reasonably) for the backup to be of the last Save, as opposed
to the last Open. With Mac OS X running months at a time, last Open
could be quite some time ago. This made more sense back in the bad old
days of Mac OS 9 and restarting twice a day minimum.
Walter
On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:11 PM, jan smoot wrote:
Thanks Colin.
I looked for backups as well. Last I found was dated Feb 15. I have
updated in many times since then. I am now thinking this is not the
first site I have lost in the manner. I lost another site and blamed
it on my backup drive, but now I’m thinking Freeway ate it. When
does Freeway do a backup? Guess I need to seriously rethink how I am
doing things.
While I may leave the application running, with Freeway I tend to
close the file at the end of a session when there have been extensive
changes. A few moments of closing and reopening later can save a
lifetime of grief!
Colin
On 18 Mar 2010, at 16:11, jan smoot wrote:
I looked for backups as well. Last I found was dated Feb 15.
Guess I need to bite the bullet and just start recreating.
Seems to me that I had not only saved but closed this file much more recently than Feb. Why would the site disappear from the recently opened file list?
Could I copy the html from the hosted page and stuff in a freeway blank page as html markup? I know this is not a good long term solution, but might help in the short term.
There is one caveat with the back-up system Freeway uses. None of the user related info like ftp-server, serverpath, username and password is kept inside that backup. Thanks to the fact that I had it written down on my oldskool piece of paper I managed to get into my site again.