From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Stengele Subject: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:21:25 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44947) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnRZV-0002y6-J9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:21:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnRZK-0007Cr-Em for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:21:49 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnRZK-0007Ce-7k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:21:38 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VnRZJ-0005iD-5P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:21:37 +0100 Received: from 212.34.176.74 ([212.34.176.74]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:21:37 +0100 Received: from rainer.stengele by 212.34.176.74 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:21:37 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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