Yeah, the .bak files are not the files I was hoping you would find. Ah well, I'm very sorry you lost your work.
Robby On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Ali ElGabri <ali.elga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to respond... just finished redoing my project. > It just displays the files in one of my folders. I see some .bak files, and > one of them IS a backup to the file that I lost, BUT it is an extremely > outdated one. > > On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 4:22:25 PM UTC-5, Robby Findler wrote: >> What is the output you see if you open a new tab, make sure the >> language is set (via the "Choose Language" dialog) to "The Racket >> Language", paste in the code below and hit "Run"? >> >> Robby >> >> #lang racket >> (call-with-input-file >> (build-path (find-system-path 'pref-dir) >> (case (system-type) >> [(unix) ".plt-autosave-toc.rktd"] >> [else "PLT-autosave-toc.rktd"])) >> read) >> >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Ali ElGabri <ali.elga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hey Robby, >> > Unforunately, I do not have the text. All it said, however, was that it >> > could not locate the file file.rkt in C://file.rkt >> > >> > On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 3:47:24 PM UTC-5, Robby Findler wrote: >> >> DrRacket saves "auto save" files every 30 or so seconds and they will be >> >> in the same directory where the file was saved. (They are deleted after >> >> the file is saved successfully.) do you see any strangely named files in >> >> the directory where your project was? >> >> >> >> >> >> Also there may be a bug in drracket and the exact content of that "could >> >> not find" message you refer to may contain a clue to the bug (and >> >> possibly a clue about what happened to your file). Do you still have its >> >> text? >> >> >> >> >> >> And I too am very sorry to hear about your project. >> >> >> >> >> >> Robby >> >> >> >> On Saturday, February 27, 2016, Ali ElGabri <ali.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I recently (yesterday) finished up a somewhat large project that added up >> >> to almost 2300 lines of code. It was all in racket using the Dr.Racket >> >> IDE. I saved up the project, closed my laptop, and went on with my day. >> >> Later on, I opened my laptop, added a few things to the project, did not >> >> save, and closed the lid on my laptop. Put in hibernation mode. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I open up my laptop again to actually submit the assignment because it >> >> was due that night and find that it had shut down. I don't know why it >> >> shut down because I certainly did not shut it down... maybe low on >> >> battery. I open it up, login and everything, and I find Dr. Racket >> >> telling me that it has my project that I could recover. I was like sweet, >> >> clicked the button, and then it gave me an error saying that it could not >> >> find my project. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Skip to after 30 minutes of searching desperately for my project.. I >> >> ascertained its disappearance. It was just totally gone... 100%. Just.. >> >> poof. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I am asking for some sort of explanation. Maybe not so much a solution >> >> because I know those are just... not possible most likely. But I want to >> >> know if any of you guys know how it could have just dissappeared. I >> >> checked the recycling bin, tmp files, I checked the folder it had been in >> >> and every other folder in my laptop to be honest. Just.. poof. >> >> >> > Hey Robby, >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "Racket Users" group. >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> >> email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Racket Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
