Last open file unreadable after crash

[heddesheimer]

I love using TopStyle for my CSS projects but unfortunately I can't use it after upgrading to the latest Version 4. Here is why:

When I open a style sheet file and work with TopStyle, all works fine if my machine doesn't crash. Unfortunately, my iMac (yes it's a Mac) crashes 2-3 times a week, I have TopStyle projects open in my virtual Windows, so that the Mac also shuts of the Windows portion running on the machine. I guess this would be the same issue if I use TopStyle on a "pure" windows machine, and since my Windows machines usually crash once per day, this will leave me in the same situation.

After the machine crashed, I can usually boot it up again and open all my files again. But if I open the last CSS file that I had open in TopStyle 4, I just see a lot of garbage. It looks pretty much like a binary file and I can't open it with any other editor either. This is reproducable and I've lost several hours of work already, because I had to revert to an older backup file. This is because the machine crash not only destroys the last unsaved changes that I made to the file, but the whole CSS file.

I wonder if there is a setting in TopStyle to prevent garbling the CSS file when TopStyle cannot be closed normally.

[Albert Wiersch]

This sounds like a corruption problem with your Windows virtualization software or something like that. I doubt it has anything to do with TopStyle itself. I'm not sure what a solution might be, except to save a backup copy on a Mac drive or USB stick as then I think it would be very strange for it to get corrupted there.

I also find it strange that your Windows machine crashes once per day. I very, very, rarely have an outright crash on any of my Windows machines. I think I had one blue-screen crash on my main Windows 7 x64 machine in several months, and it was quite surprising because it is usally very reliable. I even run lots of programs on that system and have 5 monitors hooked up to it (I think it was a driver bug). I wonder if your Windows hardware is defective (like bad RAM) or maybe you are running an old OS that is less stable, though Vista and Windows 7 have been very stable for me. Windows XP less stable, but still much better than Windows 9x and Windows Me from "the good old days".

[heddesheimer]

Thanks Albert for the reply. It's just strange that this corruption is only with TopStyle. If I use any other editor (I usually use psPad) I never have problems to open the files after a crash.

Thanks anyway

Marian