Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

[Sebastien Vauban]

Rainer Stengele wrote:
> last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) 
> org file.
> 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted.
> WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the 
> corrupted structures.
> Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now 
> became headlines.
> I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason 
> somehow.
> Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from
> subversion and insert the changes since the corruption.
>
> This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent 
> mode.
> Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure 
> all is running well.
>
> Maybe someone has an idea.
>
> I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.

Last week, I also "lost" contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code,
published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN...

That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT.
But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it
occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the
dev trunk.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban