20090807KL -- "Emergency" -- Lost File

[Derek Broughton]

Bruce MacArthur wrote:

> Greetings --
> 
> This message was previously posted to kdepim-users at kde.org.  In the
> absence of any reply just yet, I am posting to two also-applicable
> lists, namely kde-linux and kubuntu-users.
> 
> 
> I was on Kubuntu Jaunty, and editing an HTML file, using Kate. 

It's not surprising that it got no results from kdepim-users - kate has 
nothing to do with kdepim (that is, the "kontact" suite, and related apps).

> When I returned, my monitor was dark.  Usually this simply means that
> the screen-saver is working.  However, I was entirely unable to recover
> the display!  Although we have been having "electrical storms" in the
> past few days, there was no such problem in the area, and no other
> evidence of a power outage anywhere in the house.  In a few moments,
> seeing few alternatives, I powered the entire computer down brutally,
> and then rebooted.  When I opened the file that I had been editing in
> Kate, several VERY extensive pages of physical printed matter (that I
> had previously entered -- and then saved, incrementally, several times)
> were no longer to be seen -- either via Konquorer or via Kate!!!

Open the file you saved...
 

-- 
derek