Tom,

Thanks for the suggestions. I've already checked trash, hidden files, clip board, etc nothing... and I do have autosave turned on, it froze as I was saving manually. then the application quit, and when I open the application again the file was empty. It shows that the last edit was at the time of the freeze- its like as if textmate saved an empty file over it. If I could get the previous verision that I saved about 10 minutes before hand I would be all set.

Unfortunately I don't have time machine setup... grrrr

-Phil

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Mai tom@tommai.de wrote:

Hi Phillip, when TM shows an empty file its very likely that the file IS empty. Nevertheless I would check that with another editor... and then hope that I have a backup of this. (Time machine?) Maybe there is a version in the trash bin? Maybe something in the clip board?

Sorry, no better ideas...

Maybe its a good idea to turn on „Atomic saves“ (in the future) and run time machine in the background. (Btw... as a 4 years + TM user I never experienced the disaster you suffer.)

bb Tom

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First of all, thanks in advance for any help. This is an urgent issue- I had been working on a CSS file all day, I saved it hundreds of times throughout the day, everything was peachy, then all of a sudden text mate froze up and when I re-opened textmate my file is now completely empty.

I really need this file back tonight as it is due tomorrow!

Any help finding it would be awesome.

Thanks!

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On 2011-05-02 18:50, Phillip Salfity wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions. I've already checked trash, hidden files, clip board, etc nothing... and I do have autosave turned on, it froze as I was saving manually. then the application quit, and when I open the application again the file was empty. It shows that the last edit was at the time of the freeze- its like as if textmate saved an empty file over it. If I could get the previous verision that I saved about 10 minutes before hand I would be all set.

I feel your pain. Never had a problem with TextMate in particular, but I've had entire disk images corrupted by having to hard power-cycle my Mac.

I just want to point out that Thomas Mai's suggestion wasn't to enable autosave, but atomic save. Normally saving a file means overwriting it in place, which is a real bummer if there's a problem during the write. Atomic saves actually write to a temporary file, then rename that temp file to the name of the file you're saving. If anything crashes during the write you can lose your changes, but the old version is still safe under the original filename. Atomic saves do have some downsides. As the tooltip mentions, they'll break hard links. But that's probably not an issue for 99% of what most people do. They can also be problematic on some network file systems.

I hope you can recover without too much suffering!

Geoff,

I ended up re-writing the whole thing, but it would still be cool to get the original back because it was obviously not as rushed.

I was testing it in a browser, Fireforx 4, I was looking around the preferences and didn't see any way to explore the cache and just to be safe I have not opened that URL in FF since for that exact reason. But thanks very much for the tip on http://www.beecubu.com/desktop-apps/SafariCacheExplorer/ that can definitely come in handy later on. I will search for a FF plugin, if I have success with it I will absolutely share.

Thanks everyone!

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Geoff Beier geoff@mollyandgeoff.com wrote:

I hope this isn't too late to help. Were you testing the css file in a browser? Maybe it's cached there. Something like SafariCacheExplorer might be just the thing.

http://www.beecubu.com/desktop-apps/SafariCacheExplorer/

Good luck.

Geoff

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Phillip Salfity salfity@gmail.com wrote:

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First of all, thanks in advance for any help. This is an urgent issue- I had been working on a CSS file all day, I saved it hundreds of times throughout the day, everything was peachy, then all of a sudden text mate froze up and when I re-opened textmate my file is now completely empty.

I really need this file back tonight as it is due tomorrow!

Any help finding it would be awesome.

Thanks!

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