Re: Auto Save Function

Hi Dave,

Auto-save makes a backup of whatever file or member you have open in Remote
Systems LPEX Editor according to the interval you have specified in the
preferences.
Backup copies are stored in the
workspace\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.etools.systems.editor\autosave
When you close the workbench, any old backup copies are removed (as you are
prompted to save before exiting).  When the workbench crashes, the files
remain there.
If you try to open a file/member (or they come up when the workbench
reopens), the autosave function checks to see if there is a backup, if so
then you are prompted whether or not you want to use the backup version.

Hope this helps!

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/01/2006 10:57:40 AM:

Has anyone had the occasion to recover a source member using the
auto-save function?
We had a "network slowdown" yesterday and I was in the middle of
editing three source members.
I checked this morning and auto-save is set to 5 minutes.

Yet,  all the changes I made to two of the members were completely
lost.  Changes were made over a period of at least an hour.

The help description says that a dialog box will open and ask from
where to open the member.  It didn't.

WDSC did open up with all the same source members open that I had
yesterday afternoon before the slowdown.

For now I am trying to remeber what I did and re-do it,
but if there is a setting I missed to have auto-save work, I would like
to know about it.

TIA,

Dave Boettcher