Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:50:59 +0000

hehe

What I used to do on Linux is allow my editors to create ghost copies for whatever I'm doing, which creates a lot of clutter -- ~files, DEADJOE, files.ext.bak and so on, which was my initial reasoning for not having auto backups. But I'd also have a cron job recursively clean up my home directory once a day, or whenever I'd finished working on the project.

sumeiko — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:35:41 +0000

Never mind, everyone! Somehow, I managed to fix it myself. I had a similar file in the same folder with a different extension. I think i must have saved over the image file with the text file, keeping the image extension. It's absolute luck that I saved over the image file, because I also saved over the original text file with a different article. When I opened the file, it was the wrong article. Mac computers are good for changing extensions, as they let you change your files to almost anything!
When I opened the "Image file" (It had a word logo), it opened in AppleWorks and was all weird looking. When I changed the file to .rtf, my article was back and looking normal!

It was certainly an experience, and I will definately back up my files from now on!

Thanks for your concern openmind. No, I don't think Macs do have that feature.

openmind — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:32:43 +0000

I don't think the Mac has a rollback feature like windows does it?