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12TimesOver:
Ok, I have been putting off this one for a bit now because I assumed it was just me being stupid but it's happened enough times now that I think it's worth mentioning.

I have found on several occasions that when I have several script files open and make modifications and save them the scripts overwrite one of the other open scripts. For example, I open scripta, scriptb, make changes to scripta and scriptb, save scripta and scriptb, then later go open scripta and it's the contents of scriptb.

This is a rough example because I haven't experimented enough to actually duplicate it at will to see when it is really happening, for example is it two files open? Three files open? Only when I hit the Save shortcut icon in the toolbar or is it also when I select Save File or Save As under the File menu? I don't know.

And even worse, it certainly is possible that I've screwed up and saved over the wrong files somehow, now three times over the last two days. Now considering that I'm typically very careful to begin with it would be unusual for me to do something like that even once. Of course I'm not immune to doing stupid things so once will surely happen eventually. After that though I am hyper-aware of making sure I'm saving to the right locations and not overwriting files but somehow I go back to edit something I worked on and it's a copy of a different script.

Today this happened where I went to open a 14k Crafter Sub I've been working on only to find that it contained only about 20 lines of a totally different sub I had been working on later in the day. Fortunately I just happened to have a copy of this sub elsewhere but yesterday I had to repeat about an hour's worth of work when it happened to a sub I didn;t have a copy of somewhere else. The third time I was able to recover most of the lost work from the .bak file.

So anyone else have wierdness like this? Like I said, maybe it's just me. I'll try testing some more - with some dummy files of course - and see if I can come up with anything more substantial.

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TrailMyx:
I guess I'm not sure I follow what you're seeing.  Are you using the latest version?

Endless Night:

--- Quote from: TrailMyx on May 10, 2011, 10:12:01 AM ---I guess I'm not sure I follow what you're seeing.  Are you using the latest version?

--- End quote ---

I am not using the latest version and this hasn't happened to me.

TrailMyx:
I just tried creating 3 different files, and named the header of each the name of the file to keep track.  I tried all kinds of combinations of closing, opening, overwriting, etc.

So perhaps if you can come up with a step-by-step demonstration, I'll see if I can re-create your issue.  Seems to work fine for any combination of files I throw at it.

12TimesOver:
Yeah, like I said I wouldn't have even mentioned it if it hadn't happened several times now but that still doesn't mean I'm not subject to a chair-to-keyboard interface issue. Definitely don't want to sound the alarms, this was mostly just a "feeler" to see if other's have had similar wierdness.

Oh, and I'm using 239.

I'll try to pay closer attention moving forward so I can tell you if I think this really is an .exe bug rather than a XIIx bug...

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