[Scribus] Backup and emergency files

[Louis Desjardins]

2006/11/19, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>:
>
> ols6000 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> > Scribus 1.3.3.5, Window XP
> >
> > Since Scribus is crashing frequently, I am saving frequently, and
> > also I have autosave turned on. After a crash, I have the files
> >
> > FILE                      LAST MODIFIED
> > MyDoc.sla                 t
> > MyDoc.sla.bak             t
> > MyDoc.sla.emergency       t+12 sec
> >
> > If I try to open either .bak or .emergency, I get a message "Fatal
> > error/<file> is not in an acceptable format". How can I recover my lost
> work?
> >
> I think it wants the name of the file to end in '.sla', so rename
> 'MyDoc.sla.emergency' to 'MyDoc2.sla'.


Correct.

It may be a good idea to duplicate the .emergency file before renaming it.
If anything goes wrong, you'll still have a back-up file, untouched.

Louis

Greg
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