Hi all,
I had a weird one happen yesterday, and I think I know why. Here's
what happened, as close as I can reproduce it.
1. I had a fairly long file, say 8 to 10 pages. I was editing it.
2. At one point I began to mark a block, preparing to move it. I had
placed the top-of-block marker and was moving the cursor down to
mark the bottom, when I realized that the top-of-block marker was
wrong, it had been placed in the wrong place.
3. Being conditioned as I am, I used space with E to exit, thinking
that doing this would erase the marker which had been incorrectly
placed.
4. The BN paused about forty-five seconds then ran through a bunch of
things with the Braille display clicking madly.
5. When I looked, my whole file was gone, poof, just gone, the whole
blessed file just gone into the ether.
I tried exiting out to the main menu and reloading the file, still
blank, nada. I was, to put it mildly, irritated. Fortunately, I had
a second copy of this file which I had exported to Word. So I loaded
up that file and saved it as a KWB file. I'm beginning to wonder if
the clipboard ate my file by mistake. I can't prove it because I
continued my editing job and the clipboard has long since been
flushed. However, I'm just wondering if this has happened to anyone
else. I have heard people complaining that they've lost whole files
before, and I'd be curious to know if this happened while using the
block commands. I'm wondering if, when I discovered my file had
disappeared, I'd done a paste command, if my file would have
obediently come out of the clipboard? Thoughts? Comments?
Ann P.
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