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Hi all,

i've come across a very weird issue with stack files. I've been working a stack file for a while and noticed that changes i had made were reappearing the following day.

I discovered for some reason there were multiple copies of the stack file being generated in the same folder.
Apart from <stackFile>.livecode, i now have
<stackFile> 1.livecode,
<stackFile> 2.liveCode,
<stackFile> 3.livecode,
<stackFile> 4.liveCode etc.

The file with the highest number is the one with the most recent changes; but the problem is that this stackFile is launched from a splash stack, and i keep working with the original and now have multiple copies in various states of code.
Highly undesirable... (and not something i've seen with any other document based app).

Does anyone why this is happening? (LC 9.6.2, MacOS 11.4)

Many thanks
Stam

I have no explanation for you. It's not happening to me on Big Sur.

Just weird. Not sure why but it only seems to go up to 4 files. I wondered if it had something to do with weirdness around Time Machine (i have a network drive over wifi backing up at at home, but I'm not home many hours of the day and I wondered if interruption in time machine backing up or similar would do something like that... supremely annoying....

I do not have Time Machine on automatic. Always set it to
backup just before I jump into the bath at bedtime, hourly back ups are silly: far
too many processor cycles.

I back up my current work by dragging it into a folder on an external drive called, oddly enough 'RIGHT NOW'.

Oh, and I had more problems between LiveCode and MacOS 11 than I care to mention: now on MacOS 12 beta 3
and see none of that nonsense.

I don't have Time Machine enabled. In fact, I'd forgotten it even exists.

If you ever used "Save As" that could happen.

I'd be lost without Time Machine. It's saved me more than once, including its hourly backups after I've got myself into an unexpected dead end and need to go back a couple of hours to start over.

That naming pattern is not something the engine does, and I've never seen anything like that with the IDE either, unless manually with Save As. But there is an auto-save plugin that does exactly that. You might check your plugins to see if maybe you activated one inadvertently.