FrameMaker 10 deleted a file from my hard drive

[John Pitt]

Linda,

Are you using Dropbox? I had a few instances of FM files disappearing a 
year or so ago that I finally put down to working live in my local 
Dropbox on a slow internet connection.

This is theonly bug I have ever encountered in this wonderful tool (Db), 
and I now always make sure that Db synching has completed before closing 
FM files.

jjj


On 26/10/2014 3:00 AM, framers-request at lists.frameusers.com wrote:
> Message: 13
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:12:00 -0600
> From: "Linda Gallagher"<lindag at techcomplus.com>
> To: "'Post Framers'"<framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: FrameMaker 10 deleted a file from my hard drive
> Message-ID: <725B715B9D1E41529609B5CB4ADEB178 at LGDellDsktp710>
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>
> FM 10
> Win 7
>   
> All,
>   
> I was just working in a book that I created about a month ago. I created a
> PDF, found some things that needed fixing, edited a couple of files (not the
> one at issue), updated the book, found a bad x-ref, then found that the file
> the x-ref went to is gone. I mean completely gone. Not in the book file, not
> in the folder on my hard drive, not anywhere on my hard drive. Gone!!!!!
>   
> I edited the file earlier, and of course it was the only one I'd made
> extensive changes to today, and it's also the longest file of the book
> (though only 20 pages).
>   
> How on earth could the file get deleted. Everything is local on my computer.
> I'm the only one using any of this. The file was there when I created the
> PDF only a few minutes before the disappearing act. My only actions after
> creating the PDF were to edit a couple of files in the book, then update the
> book. Then WTF, the file is gone.
>   
> I've recovered the file from backups (I have multiple backup methods and
> locations), but now I'm worried about this issue. What could cause it? I've
> been using FM 10 for years with no issues. (I upgraded to FM 12 recently,
> but haven't updated my old projects.)
>   
> Any ideas???????
>   
>
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