Thank you for your input. The TW was a fresh one which I downloaded today in the morning. The clocks were already 'spring ahead' on my laptop on sunday (should have, because I have on internet). So I dunno.
Maybe I am just dreaming things. I suspected that maybe instead of 'Save' I have been hitting 'Cancel' all the time. But its really hard to accept that. Or maybe I did not save at all and I am not sleeping well. Sometimes I deeply suspect the nature of reality. I suspect that there is no objective reality and that world does not exist outside of our mind. But if the world of our mind does exist, then in that mind I DID save the file, so it should be there now. I don't know. On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 8:12:48 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > Wait, 5pm *PST*? That's not right. But it got me thinking. > > I suspect that the problem is an imperfect storm of GD and DST. Are you > continuously connected to the net? Did your laptop automatically update > the time over the weekend? Did you use the laptop over the weekend? I'm > thinking that when you first started writing to the disk it did so with a > timestamp that was an hour behind. GD then thought the file in the cloud > was newer. So GD wrote over your file. Unless you double-checked the > timestamp yourself and/or reloaded the TW file, you wouldn't know that it > had happened. > > That's my theory any way. Some variety of that. > > Well, hopefully it won't happen again for another 10 years. Or at least > until Oct. 26. > > -- Mark > > > On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:23:07 PM UTC-7, passingby wrote: >> >> There is a first time for everything. I lost data worth a few hours >> today. Its not the end of the world but I am at my wits end as to how it >> happened. I am sharing this to find out if you have any strange >> explanations or if it has happened to you like this ever. >> Here are the facts of the case: >> >> 1. I am on windows 10, chrome browser which I just checked, is up-to-date. >> 2. I was using the default saver, and I was over writing my file on the >> disk. >> 3. The file was physically located in Google drive folder, which is in >> sync all the time >> 4. I had been making notes since morning and periodically I pressed the >> save button and overwrote the local file. >> 5. I remember the dialog box warning for overwriting coming up, and I >> saying yes to it. I remember the sound of the warning too. (this makes me >> feel sure that I did save my file a couple of times at least) >> 6. At around 5pm PST, I closed the browser and shut down my laptop >> because my brain was fatigued and I thought I should move around a bit >> 7. I came back to the room after about half an hour and started my laptop. >> 8. When I opened my TW it had only one tiddler in it and that was the >> very first one from early afternoon. No other tiddlers were there. >> 9. I checked the local file time stamp and it had 12.30pm ! >> 10. I was dumbfounded! I went to my google drive on web and check the >> file version. There were none after 12.30pm! >> 11. I searched my chrome history to see if I accidentally was working on >> any other TW simultaneously with a similar name. Nope, nothing. >> 12. I searched my windows machine to see if I could find any local file I >> worked on. None. >> >> So what happened? The only explanation is that I did not save at all. >> This I am not ready to accept. I definitely saved a couple of times. But >> timestamp on my file as well as google driver version time says last >> modification was 12.30 pm. This is very strange. >> At one time during my workflow I pulled out the TW tab from my chrome and >> made it into separate window. And about an hour later I merged all the tabs >> back. I do not know, but I am suspecting maybe that splitting and merging >> did something. >> >> Well, the data was lost. That's okay. >> >> Assuming that I did press the save button and followed the process, is it >> in any way possible that Chrome did not overwrite the local file? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d879b34a-7fc8-4e38-bfcc-a41d153686d2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
