Re: Gnumeric file went south .

[Alan Davis <adavis saipan com>]

Relevant to my original complaint, I woke up this morning to find the following message scrolling 
interminably on one of my sessions---presumeably the same session on which I had X11 running.  

   ** CRITICAL**: file sheet.c: line 1739, (Sheet_row_get): assertion 'pos < SHEET_MAX_ROWS' failed.  

I tried the procedure recommended by Daniel Veillard.  The same thing.  I wouldn't know what to look for in 
the xml file, to repair it.  Maybe something about MAX_ROWS?

Thank you for the immediate attention.  I am impressed.  

Emacs handles this quite well.  What objection is there to having a backup option like emacs?   Writing a 
file in a secure manner is something that seems a necessity.  Virtually all programs I have used seem to have 
some means to write the file before changing the name.  Then again, I am not a programmer.

Thank you,

Alan Davis

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> > All my grades were in a gnumeric file, which file, partly due to
> > Gnumeric not having (AFAICT) a way to configure for backups at
> > periodic intervals, was lost when my disk filled up.  
>
> This reminds me some idea. Currently all file savers in Gnumeric 
> just overwrite the file while saving. If we can't save for some reason (lost
> connection to file server, Gnumeric/OS crash, etc.), we loose the data (the
> old file is overwritten and the new one is unusable). How about saving the
> file to <tmp_prefix>-<file_name> and then (if everything is ok) renaming it?
> I volunteer to implement this for most savers.
>
>
> Zbigniew
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adavis saipan com                                      1-670-235-6580
    Alan E. Davis,  PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI

 I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any
 hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on
 every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.  
                                  -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)