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Re: Mathematica crashed -- where did my notebook go?

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• Subject: [mg99126] Re: [mg99095] Mathematica crashed -- where did my notebook go?
• From: David Bakin <davidbak at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:43:00 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200904270514.BAA18674@smc.vnet.net>

It is disappointing.  Considering how much of Mathematica's non-mathematical
core is based on Lisp I'm surprised they didn't borrow the "dribble" file.

(But surely it is something that can be coded by a user?  Can't you supply
an appropriate function to $Pre or $PreRead that writes out all your input
to a file?)

-- David
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mathematica just crashed on me in the middle of writing a program, and
> of course everything I had done is gone. Is there any temporary file
> or anything still left on the disk that contains anything of what I
> was working on at the time of the crash? I tried to do a bit of
> investigating, but could not see any open files that exist while
> working on a new notebook, so where does Mathematica put everything I
> type into a notebook until I save it?
>

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