Rainer Stengele wrote: > last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) > org file. > 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. > WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the > corrupted structures. > Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now > became headlines. > I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason > somehow. > Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from > subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. > > This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent > mode. > Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure > all is running well. > > Maybe someone has an idea. > > I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.
Last week, I also "lost" contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code, published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN... That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT. But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the dev trunk. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
