Re: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

[Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com>]

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Hello Alexander,

Thanks for your attention.  The message I sent earlier was of my experience
on my work computer.

I have now tried the same on my home computer.  The files on both edited
was in /home/js/Dropbox/orgmode.

I have also edited ~/.emacs and saved it.

that is strange.  I cannot remember doing something else besides putting
> the mentioned code into my init file.  I can only think of these
> "trivial" reason why this does not work for you:
>
> - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs?
>

I have killed and restarted emacs.  How do I evaluate (reload) .emacs when
emacs is running?


> - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/?
> - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init
>   file?
> - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on
>   vc-make-backup-files?
>
> HTH,
> --
>  Alexander Baier
>
> On 13-12-03 09:33 Johann Spies wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do
> not
> > see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory.
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >   (setq make-backup-files t)
> >   (setq backup-directory-alist '(("/home/js/*" .
> "/home/js/.emacs.d/backup")))
> >   (setq backup-by-copying t      ; don't use symlinks
> >         delete-old-versions t    ; don't ask me about deleting backups
> >         kept-new-versions 20
> >         kept-old-versions 5
> >         version-control t)       ; use versioned backups
> > #+end_src
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Johann
> >
> >
> > On 2 December 2013 17:37, Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote:
> >> > All,
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> > Rainer
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs'
> >> build-in backup machanism to save me from such things.  As emacs stuffs
> >> them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting
> >> my filesystem.
> >>
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >>   (setq make-backup-files t)
> >>   (setq backup-directory-alist '(("/home/delexi/*" .
> >> "/home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup")))
> >>   (setq backup-by-copying t      ; don't use symlinks
> >>         delete-old-versions t    ; don't ask me about deleting backups
> >>         kept-new-versions 20
> >>         kept-old-versions 5
> >>         version-control t)       ; use versioned backups
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also
> >> have to set the following:
> >>
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >>   (setq vc-make-backup-files t)
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> This already saved me a couple of times.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --
> >>  Alexander Baier
> >>
> >>
>
>


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