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From: David Bailey on 1 Mar 2010 05:19
eric g wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> My system crashed and I lost 4 hour of coding, how to setup auto-save in
> Mathematica.
> thanks in advance,
> Eric
>
You don't really want Mathematica to save your work at arbitrary points
of time - if you are working on it, the chances are what you save will
be impossible to run. Also, if your system does crash, there is a high
probability that it may be writing to disk when the crash actually happens.

I save regularly, and I have learned to notice the little asterisk next
to the file name on the caption bar that tells you that the file has
been changed since the last save.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk



From: fizzy on 1 Mar 2010 05:20
Helen....thank you so much....after all these years I became an expert at
click 'Window' then 'Show Toolbar'.. .....after I did what you said I opened a New Notebook....and there it was...the Toolbar....

It really hurts to lose such expertise but I'm sure my grief wont last long

thanks...jerry blimbaum


On 2/27/2010 3:14 AM, fizzy wrote:
> I prefer to click on Window and then Show Toolbar....I add this to every
> saved Notebook...the Toolbar has a 'Save' icon...so , every so often I
> can just put my cursor up there, click and the Notebook is saved....plus
> it's easy to add the type of line I want next in the Notebook...i.e.
> SubSection or Text, etc....

You can set the Toolbar to be always on by doing the following:

On the Mathematica menu, go to Format, Option Inspector. In the Option
Inspector, pick Global Perferences in the Show Option Values dropdown.
Open up Notebook Options on the left pane, then Display Options. Over on
the right pane, select WindowToolbars and select EditBar from the dropdown.

I'm also a big fan of the keyboard shortcut Ctl-S for save. It is second
nature for me to hit Ctl-S every few minutes when working in Mathematica
or just about any other application. I wish I could get my students to
do it (I try, but some of them just won't save).

--
Helen Read
University of Vermont
From: David Bailey on 2 Mar 2010 03:38
George Woodrow III wrote:
> Checking this on Max OS X (10.6.2) --
>
> I see no 'Save' icon, only style, alignment, Fonts, Print, Help.
>
> It would be nice to have a save icon, but I can't see how to add one. Some programs have a menu command to format the toolbar, but I can't find it in Mathematica.
>

You can, of course, create your own 'toolbar' by setting the DockedCells
option on the notebook.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

From: John Jowett on 5 Mar 2010 04:37
As recommended here, I do save my notebooks frequently (and make
copies now and again, especially while coding intensively). However
an extremely useful supplementary technique is to use the "Bare Bones
Backup" described by DrMajorBob in this group a few years ago:

http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Jun/msg00579.html

This makes a palette with a button that saves a time-stamped version
of the notebook with all the output removed - generally a pretty small
file - in a backup directory. You can have hundreds of these, each
containing the essential stuff (i.e. that you typed yourself) as it
was at a given moment.

I made some adaptations of my own to include the year in the notebook
name, choose my own location for the backup files, etc.

John Jowett


On Mar 2, 9:38 am, David Bailey <d...(a)removedbailey.co.uk> wrote:
> George Woodrow III wrote:
> > Checking this on Max OS X (10.6.2) --
>
> > I see no 'Save' icon, only style, alignment, Fonts, Print, Help.
>
> > It would be nice to have a save icon, but I can't see how to add one. Some programs have a menu command to format the toolbar, but I can't find it in Mathematica.
>
> You can, of course, create your own 'toolbar' by setting the DockedCells
> option on the notebook.
>
> David Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


From: David Reiss on 7 Mar 2010 04:12
On Mar 5, 4:37 am, John Jowett <john.m.jow...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> As recommended here, I do save my notebooks frequently (and make
> copies now and again, especially while coding intensively). However
> an extremely useful supplementary technique is to use the "Bare Bones
> Backup" described by DrMajorBob in this group a few years ago:
>
> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Jun/msg00579.html
>
> This makes a palette with a button that saves a time-stamped version
> of the notebook with all the output removed - generally a pretty small
> file - in a backup directory. You can have hundreds of these, each
> containing the essential stuff (i.e. that you typed yourself) as it
> was at a given moment.
>
> I made some adaptations of my own to include the year in the notebook
> name, choose my own location for the backup files, etc.
>
> John Jowett
>
> On Mar 2, 9:38 am, David Bailey <d...(a)removedbailey.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
Also see the backup functionality in A WorkLife Framework:
http://scientificarts.com/worklife In it all notebooks can be
provided with at toolbar that has a backup menu....

--David


>
> > George Woodrow III wrote:
> > > Checking this on Max OS X (10.6.2) --
>
> > > I see no 'Save' icon, only style, alignment, Fonts, Print, Help.
>
> > > It would be nice to have a save icon, but I can't see how to add one. Some programs have a menu command to format the toolbar, but I can't find it in Mathematica.
>
> > You can, of course, create your own 'toolbar' by setting the DockedCells
> > option on the notebook.
>
> > David Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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