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Folks,

I have an odd scenario. I was working on a workspace and my PC crashed. It was not FME related. In fact it was during a file copy and there's some issue with my network card driver.

I had unsaved edits.

I found a recover document that points me to another location with a "wp_" prefix file. It looks like this is some kind of log of edits. Checking the "wp_" file it seems to have most of my edits.

The odd thing is on restart I wasn't given the option to recover.

1. is it possible to trigger a recover?

2. is it possible to parse the "wp_" and get some if not all the pending edits back?

Thanks in advance

The dialog asking your to recover your workspace is based on the presence of a workspacename.fmw.recover file, so if that file is missing you won't be prompted.

As an alternative solution you could perhaps look for any recent wb_recovery_* files in your TEMP directory and try to rename them as a .fmw file to see if you can recover something that way.

One thing it depends on is whether you have ever saved the workspace. If you've saved it previously then there should be a recover file. As long as it has the same name as the workspace file, it should trigger a recover on reopening.

However, if you've never saved the workspace at all, you won't be prompted to recover. There might be a recover file and workspace file stored temporarily on your system, but you'd have to hunt them down. But if you can, rename the recover file (might be the wp file here) to the same name as the workspace and try opening it again (but keep a backup, just in case something screwy happens).

One thing it depends on is whether you have ever saved the workspace. If you've saved it previously then there should be a recover file. As long as it has the same name as the workspace file, it should trigger a recover on reopening.

However, if you've never saved the workspace at all, you won't be prompted to recover. There might be a recover file and workspace file stored temporarily on your system, but you'd have to hunt them down. But if you can, rename the recover file (might be the wp file here) to the same name as the workspace and try opening it again (but keep a backup, just in case something screwy happens).

Thanks Mark. This is probably one of my oldest workspaces so yes there were many and frequent saves over the past few months. Oddly another workspace(completely different name and project) that I wasn't working on did offer a recover. I did try the fmw.recover rename and got an odd "different version" type error message and no result. As nothing really worked I used the "wp_" prefix file and manually transcribed the changes.

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