Disappearing Transcript in Version 6 of Eclipse

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I was on the Eclipse Forum board and have been reading some disturbing info about Version 6.  I'm concerned because the same thing happened to me yesterday where what I had proofed after I exited out of the job, when I went back in, the software put me back 20 pages in the job.    Here are a few posts:

 

Apparently I spoke too soon in saying I don't have the problem of changes not being saved in Version 6.  It suddenly started happening to me again yesterday.  I opened a job that I scoped yesterday to proof it today, and the last 45 pages or so of changes from yesterday were reverted back to the unedited format.  I've just spent another good amount of time redoing the changes, and when I go to Windows Explorer and look at the Date modified on the file -- which is still open because I don't want to lose changes again -- the time showing on the file is more than an hour ago, meaning it has not updated even once during that time.  In order to assure I don't lose all the work I've done on the file, I am going to have to write it to another file so it will create a current version of it. 
I know Jeremy is trying to get the Connection Magic all up and running before the convention, but this losing work is too critical to ignore.  I have seen it reported in all the various reporting forums I frequent at different times, and I know several people personally who have had it happen to them.  We can't afford to be having to do work over, and we certainly can't afford to be having it happen and not realizing it and putting out uncorrected work!
ETA:  I did the steps I indicated above, writing the entire file to a new file, and then closed out the file.  The time on it remained more than hour ago, and all changes made during that time are now gone.  I have both files to compare if it would help.

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Last night I worked on a transcript, was about 15 pages into it, when I decided to call it a night.  I powered down the normal way by exiting out of each and every program before shutting down.  I came back this morning to pick up where I left off, went into my job, and it took me to a transcript that was totally without edititing.  I looked see if I could revert back to another time.  There was nothing there, like it never existed.  I went to my trash bin, nothing there.  I checked to see if my dictionaries that I used had updated, and they had, except for the job dictionary.  So nothing else was affected.  I then did a search on my computer to see if I could find it somewhere else.  No luck.  Just where it should have been.

Now the weird part.  When I started to re-edit the job, everytime I would turn off Hyperkeys to type in a replacement, it suggest the exact same replacement, even if it wasn't one I had ever used for that word before, but it matched what I had done before.

Just for grins and giggles, I globaled in my job dictionary to see if anything would change, and nothing did.  

So it saved something somewhere, but not what it should have.

BYW, I did no restores this morning or any other computer clean ups, scans or optimizations.

Any thoughts?

 

 

 

[Julie Samford]

I know that sometimes if you open a file from an email or online, and it's not actually stored on your computer, this can happen.  You have to be sure to have the file downloaded on your computer before editing.

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I always have the file downloaded to my computer before editing.   I sure hope it gets fixed soon.  I hope I didn't think something was proofed that was not saved and I sent it out.  At least now I'm aware of the problem and will have to be more careful.

[LeAnne Law]

Do you have the most recent update?  Could be a bug that's now fixed.