Re: spreadsheet file is missing changes

[Ken Hill <ken scottshill com>]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:47 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: 
> On Thu, 2006-23-02 at 22:35 -0800, Ken Hill wrote:
> > I just did a search for files with a name containing ".gsf" and found
> > nothing. I went ahead and spent a good half day recreating the
> > spreadsheet - it was needed for my son's Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby
> > race tonight.
> > 
> > I'm going to try and replicate the problem to see if it is a bug. This
> > is what I did:
> > 
> > 1. Created a new gnumeric spreadsheet.
> > 
> > 2. Added some new sheets to the file.
> > 
> > 3. Saved the file, and left it open.
> > 
> > 4. Left my laptop on and the the battery expired, thus turning off the
> > OS.
>
> DO yuo mena that your laptop shutdown the OS or simply crashed it. IN
> the latter case the problem may simply be that the hard drive was not
> properly unmounted and the file therefore appears empty. THis would not
> be a gnumeric issue.
> > 
> > 5. Power-up my laptop and restarted the OS.
> > 
> > 6. Opened the gnumeric file, and the data was lost.
> Do you have a copy of that gnumeric file? How large does it claim to be?
> (ls -l filename)
>
> Andreas
I closed the screen of the laptop and I went to bed. The battery ran out of juice, thus, the drive was probably not properly unmounted. However, I saved the file before closing the screen of the laptop; wouldn't that of saved the file even if the drive unmounted improperly?

The copy of my gnumeric file says the file size is "0" (zero):

$ ls -l race_cars.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 ken ken 0 2006-02-23 11:49 race_cars.xml

It is an XML file because I tried to gunzip it.

I'm using Ubuntu Breezy and Gnumeric version 1.5.90.

-Ken