On 20 Oct 2005 at 13:08, Don Hart wrote:

> I was able to go to the *backup copy made when I last saved* and was
> fortunate enough to lose virtually nothing.  I found no way to
> retrieve the lost data in my original file.  The undos I did trying to
> rectify the problem (immediately after I noticed it) went up to and
> beyond the point in time the problem occurred and never brought back
> the stricken data.

It's not surprising that UNDO does nothing, as the undo list is a 
memory structure that has to be maintained by the code behind the 
editing operations done on a file. That is, when you nudge an 
articulation, the code behind that action (which accepts your 
keystroke and converts it into an onscreen response and determines 
what that means for the position of the articulation and what needs 
to be stored about the articultion's position) also writes data to 
the internal UNDO buffer so that this action can be rolled back if 
you choose to. 

This bug obviously is not happening in any of the editing routines 
that populate the UNDO buffer. It's just corrupting the data 
structures, so there is nothing in the UNDO list about this 
happening.

This is to be expected as it's not really a valid transaction against 
the database -- it's an actual corruption of the structure of the 
database itself.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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