Keep freeway and my document open all the time (I rarely shut the program down)
I make changes, I hit SAVE a lot and hit upload.
The changes are made to the site and this is my daily routine.
But once in a while a CRASH happens and closes FW.
When this happens and I reopen my site in FW I have often lost many of my changes (like days) even though I have uploaded.
I think I get why it happens but I need advice on what to do not when the crash happens, but what to do so that when it does CRASH i can re-open and not lose much. Is there something I can hit (apparantly not “save”) that will “lock in” those changes even of crash?
I thought I read once that if you save and exit the program and re-open, the changes are locked in, but I cannot see doing that very much.
The key is saving your FWP document and doing so often. Uploading only writes the code to your site, but doesn’t save the FWP document, which is vital.
Then how come when I hit File, Save, it does not 100% lock in the changes if a crash happens???
Do you think it should lock them in after hitting save, and do you think that if my file reopens and 10 changes are not there that that means I definitely did not hit SAVE since then?
I believe I do hit it a lot but maybe I need to do it more.
I also always hit PREVIEW in browser so I would think it is rebuilding those pages. I would think a crash would not revert to prior changes then. That is where I am confused.
I found this
“When you publish, all your altered pages are regenerated, but nothing is shown to you in a browser.”
i just looked at the date and time of my backup file and the date and time was Wed night. THat was about the last changes I saw after my crash today when I reopened the regular file. (i.e. I lost all changes done on THurs and this morning).
so after a crash it reverts to the backup day and time kind of??
I think I am getting closer to figuring this out but not there yet.
Saving does not update the backup. In order to update the backup, you have to close the document, then re-open it successfully. After it has been re-opened, the fwbackup is updated to the state it was in when it was re-opened. This is a safety measure, to avoid corruption.
Walter
On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Barry Hoffman wrote:
if I hit SAVE, then close the file (thus updating the backup), will I ever risk re-opening it up and the changes not being there??
i know that Walt, but simply… if my FW file crashed and I re-open and I see that 2 days of changes are not there… what does that mean and what could I have done to help this?
Does it mean , I never hit SAVE in 2 days? I am sure i have
Does it mean, I never hit preview in browser? I surely did.
Does it mean I never uploaded- of course I did.
I just want to know what I can do as I am working so that if it does crash it will not matter much because I will hit whatever I have to every 15 min to avoid it.
This was a pet gripe of mine with FW, I would save, save and save but when FW crashed I lost the saves, sometimes for several days!!! only to learn that FW does not actually write the saves to disc until the FW file is closed ‘as Walt mentions’, this put me into the habit of closing the site file I was working on at the end of each day or when I have to leave the computer for more than an hour or so, then that way I know if I have an issue the saves have been updated to the file on disc… at least until the last time the file was opened, or closed to be more precise.
HTH
On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Barry Hoffman wrote:
i know that Walt, but simply… if my FW file crashed and I re-open and I see that 2 days of changes are not there… what does that mean and what could I have done to help this?
Does it mean , I never hit SAVE in 2 days? I am sure i have
Does it mean, I never hit preview in browser? I surely did.
Does it mean I never uploaded- of course I did.
I just want to know what I can do as I am working so that if it does crash it will not matter much because I will hit whatever I have to every 15 min to avoid it.
Barry, I’m gonna take a stab at this. When you save are you using the menu File/Save OR the keyboard Command-S?
Reason I ask is that once I had the same symptoms as you because was in the habit of saving with the keyboard - it turned out that - for some weird reason - my keyboard wasn’t saving with Command-S.