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Anyone ever have a substack to an otherwise perfectly working mainstack just disappear?

Gone.

And I cannot retrieve it in any way (I think) because a subStack is not a file that was backed up.

Craig

The only time that’s happened to me is using “delete” to remove a stack from memory, but if used with a substack it deletes it… I take it this doesn’t apply to you?

Stam.

No, and I know how often that pat answer has no basis in reality

But I have no tools available that might have deleted that subStack. I was simply working in it, and it disappeared after I clicked a button. It was no longer listed in the subStacks of the mainStack, and of course was not a file in its own right for me to restore.

I had an earlier version of the file, and rebuilt the substack from that, but it wasted nearly a full day.

So the lesson is save often, but also save a working copy often as well.

Craig

That’s why I use GitHub even for simple projects…

stam wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:50 pm

That’s why I use GitHub even for simple projects…

The storage method is less important in this case than the frequency. Whichever drive it's stored in, automation is useful.

Here I use Nextcloud to keep critical folders both backed up and synced across my Mac, Win, and Linux machines. Its automation trigger is save, time-stamping each as it goes, so I get backup, versioning, and syncing, in text and binary files, all without even having to think about it.

If LC had GitHub integration so that on save it created a new version (even if stored locally) it would achieve the same level of automation and not be dependent of maintaining a nextCloud server or anything similar. Many IDEs have this, it's a pity LC doesn't...