On 2011-03-28 21:10 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: >> I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. >> I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my >> .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my >> content (i.e., the .lyx files?). I also have the .odf but those are >> probably useless. Thanks. > > If this happened to me, the VERY FIRST thing I'd do is copy off the directory > tree as it currently exists. That way, at least I could keep going back to my > current condition if attempts to resolve make things worse. > > You do have daily backups, don't you?
And, of course you run some for of revision control, preferably off site? el