Losing saved parts of sketches (tabs)

Processing
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Working on a larger project and having occasional reoccuring problems with saved sketches.
They do not seem to save that well to files. My sketch exists of 7 different tabs. Every so often one of these tabs (x.pde) seems not to be saved. I can recover using the stored x.tmp file but still it does not feel really secure. I backup a lot so not yet real damage done.

I found people online that had the same problem but have not seen a solution. Do I do something wrong, or can I get this from corrupting each time?

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can you please add / confirm some info?

  • processing 3.5.3
  • what operating system ( and 32 / 64 bit )
  • operation: do you save the project prior to run the sketch?
    ( understand that that is actually something we not want to do,
    as we want to save new code lines only if we know they work well )
  • you use the PDE / Tools / Archive Sketch / for backup?
  • your wording is not clear, is the newly change in a tab missing after save project
    OR
    is a prior existing tab ( .pde file ) missing?
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-processing 3.5.3
-win10 64bit
-yes, I save (half of the times) before running. I do not want to lose any changes I make.
-no, didn’t know of that option. Right now I step to a new version number when the project steps into a new programming goal.
-a whole tab will be missing completely when starting up Processing. And sometimes Processing (while working on the sketch) alarms me that a tab (*.pde) is missing in the folder and asks me if I want to save it again.

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Maybe x as a name for the tab is too short.

I work with longer names like classCamera

(Would be a bug anyway)

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X.pde was not the real name. Actual name is longer.
My fault.
Should have typed *.pde

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can you share

  • a project.zip

  • a error log from
    c:\Users\ < USER > \AppData\Roaming\Processing\console
    like 191001_015841.err

other question, is there something special with your sketch path?
google drive or drop box?? while these apps are running? i would not use…

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Could it be that the files get corrupted because of my Synology backing up everything continuously? Never had a problem with other programs with that.

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working on a network drive should be ok,
and if that has a auto backup also ( if no raid error )

but better try again on a local sketchbook.

also if the network drive with backup system would be responsible,
the problems should be with every sketch ( single .pde too )

you found any error log?

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Not yet, will be searching again on monday.
It happens every now and then, so quite difficult to replicate.

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Well, apparently the tab gets deleted externally. As the title of the window says. Did not see that until I had a better look.
So that is not something processing related but could be more of a Synology syncing thingy.

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