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From: J Oliver jaime.oliver2@gmail.com To: Julian Brooks jbeezez@gmail.com Cc: PD List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [PD] Retrieve overwritten audio from [writesf~]?

Well,

I guess this sort of thing has happened to almost everyone on this list.  Is there anyway we can get a warning just like the one we get when we close an unsaved patch?  or to close a file being recorded when closing a patch?

Possibly with a 2nd arg-- zero for current behavior and nonzero for "warn if file exists before opening".  But really that seems like treating the symptom-- the real solution would be to check if the file exists before sending the "open" message on to [writesf~]:

[open foo.wav( | [check-if-file-exists-and-popup-a-modal-dialog-to-decide-whether-to-overwrite] | [writesf~]

There is folder_list and split_path to get the job done, but I can't think of an object that pops up a modal dialog (and I don't have my search plugin installed at the moment).

-Jonathan

Are these valid feature requests?

J

On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Julian Brooks wrote:

Hello,

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So, I've just accidently caught the message box attached to writesf~ and deleted the audio that I just recorded as I sent an 'open' message with the same name as the file I'd previously recorded.   Apart from it being a grim lesson I'm now curious.  Where will that original file have gone?  and is it completely gone or will it be 'stashed' somewhere?   I've accepted the loss (through gritted teeth), but am still curious if anyone knows and in case it happens again, though not something I'm planning on if I can possibly help it?   I'm on debian btw.   Cheers,   Julian

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