Sometimes Hise is not saving properly the project archive or xml

[mehmethand]

This is happening too much. Hise sometimes is not saving archive or .xml properly and I'm losing my work and start coding again.

I'm saving an archive then save an xml. Close hise and reopen it. Check saved files. They are missing latest entries.
I really don't what is causing this. Can you help me please?

[d.healey]

@mehmethand Yes this has been happening to me as well recently, very frustrating.

[Christoph Hart]

Hmm weird I didn‘t notice anything like this. I even fixed one bug that corrupted the XML when you set an illegal component property.

So what‘s happening exactly? The file isn‘t written at all or its not complete?

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart HISE says the file was saved but when I reopen the file the changes aren't there - only sometimes they are (yes, it's one of those lovely intermittent problems). I found if I hold the file open separately in a text editor as I'm resaving I just keep checking to make sure the values are written before I close HISE.

I haven't been able to recreate the issue reliably.

[DanH]

@d-healey this happens to me too, seems quite random.

[d.healey]

@mehmethand In XmlPresetBackups there will be a UIData folder. Check in there and see if you have two xml files. There should only be one. In my case I think this is the cause of the problem. I changed my project's name at some point which I think caused this.

[whoopsydoodle]

Was this ever solved?

I'm running a very recent githash 68611b16 version of Hise

I've been working on a project for months with no problems and then suddenly today this just started happening. I have no idea what caused it to happen.

Hise does not save it's .js files anymore. I make a change, save it in hise, reopen and my change is gone. Never saved. If I check an external editor Hise is simply not saving the file when it says it is.

@d-healey I checked in the XmlPresetBackups folder and I had projectname.xml and projectname.xmlBK in both the XmlPresetBackups and projectnameUIData subfolder. Removing the .xmlBK did nothing for this problem.

[d.healey]

@whoopsydoodle Included scripts are saved when you compile them, have you been doing that?

[hisefilo]

@d-healey yesterday I lost changes made on a external .js
Im using git to commit small changes and check since
Dont know if its related

[d.healey]

@hisefilo Were you editing inside HISE or in an external editor? Was the script added as an include or attached as an external script to a MIDI processor?

[hisefilo]

@d-healey internal HISE editor. Js file was included on Interface

[d.healey]

@hisefilo Did you compile the script after making your changes?

[hisefilo]

@d-healey Yes. I just tried to reproduce it without luck

[hisefilo]

@d-healey I have A LOT of .xml on that project. Some times it stop opening them. Solution I've found is to move xmls and UIData to an "old" folders to clean XmlPresetBackups folder.

[d.healey]

@hisefilo said in Sometimes Hise is not saving properly the project archive or xml:

I have A LOT of .xml on that project.

1 xml per project
git for managing different versions
.hip for little test patches.

[hisefilo]

@d-healey got it! I'm completely aware of my bad practices

[hisefilo]

@d-healey I guess I won a beer! Figured out the glitch.

External .js wont save if you are editing it in a "NEW TAB" even if you save the xml

To reproduce:

1 Create an external .js
2 Include it
3 Create a new view and select the .js
4 Edit it.
5 Save the xml
6 Close HISE

....and you 5 hs of coding will be gone

(gif of a tiny cartoon pony dancing)

[d.healey]

@hisefilo You missed step 4.5 hit compile. I work with 8 editor tabs open all the time so I don't think that can be the cause.

[hisefilo]

@d-healey yes you are right. Then maybe my previous glitch was just that!

[whoopsydoodle]

@d-healey ok this is super strange.

The save function in Hise no longer saves any of my included .js files. But the compile button does.