Hello, Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@online.de> writes:
> 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. For the sake of correctness, `org-indent-mode' cannot corrupt a file. It only modifies two text properties, `line-prefix' and `wrap-prefix', never the contents of the file. Something else corrupted that file. `org-indent-mode' possibly made it harder to notice, but you're looking after the wrong culprit. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou