[xubuntu-users] mousepad wiped out file content when font change tried

[Ralf ranfyy]

2014-07-15 3:32 GMT+02:00 Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com>:

> Editing a file in Mousepad I wanted to change to Italic font. I opened
> View->Select Font, selected Italic and clicked OK. And...
>
> Suddenly all text disappeared. I tried to close the file and, quite
> logically in this situation, selected DO NOT SAVE when I was prompted.
>
> When I reopened the file it was JUST PLAIN EMPTY. To my horror I found
> that Mousepad did not do an automatic backup either.
>
> Well folks, I'm in Linux for a long time but this is something new. Quite
> an aCHIEVEMENT. :-( Very impressive. :-(
>
> For last several days I've been working almost exclusively in Xubuntu
> environment testing it. I say, I liked it very much, and I was seriously
> considering switching to it. But know I'm not quite sure in this anymore.
> Does XFCE generally has such type of bugs or it's just Xubuntu?
>
> And the most important... Is there any way to recover the loss?!! Well,
> I'm asking just being totally desperate. :-( A day of work has been
> vanished! :-(
>

Try this:

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/ext4magic
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