peter,
Yeah, I figured the log part out. What describe seems to be the case
with one exception, this log file is named uniquely and all the data
appears to still be in it. Don't know if this is a new feature or not
but I do appear to have quite a bit of the data, though I can't tell
where during teh day yesterday this starts, looks like the oldest of the
data may be missing. I'm still curious though, what is the .dmp file
that came with the script log?
Joey
peter_b wrote:
>
> the scriptlog is the log of all commands you use while working, as a script.
> So you can execute that to recreate (all) the work you did.
> theres a preference to restrict the number of lines, you can make this to
> unlimited
>
> this file is automatically overwritten when opening XSI, so in case of a
> crash
> you need to rename or copypaste into a text file, before launching XSI.
>
> since you restarted yours was no good anymore, sorry.
> its a bit stupid that it works this way, it should at least backup 1 version
>
> When you use this, some caution is advisable:
> - some stuff is not or partly logged, you wont be able to recreate it this
> way.
> - allways look for the most recent save scene command.
> delete all lines before this, open the scene and work from there.
> if you cant find it, chances are you had a limited number of lines,
> so you probably miss a part.
> - you should not run any save, export, render ... commands from this script,
> as they can ruin data you had previously saved.
> best practice is to go a few lines at a time, read them to quickly know
> what they do...
> ...
>
> All this aside its a real lifesaver...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joey Ponthieux" <j.g.ponthieux(at)LaRC.NASA.GOV>
> To: <xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:16 PM
> Subject: .dmp file?
>
> > Hello,
> > Yesterday I had a severe crash. XSI 5 Adv WinXP. I lost two hours of
> > work when I went to rename a node and the interface locked up with the
> > white name entry still up and an hourglass floating over the interface.
> > I was using a Transform Group to collect and parent about 20 objects.
> > It hung when I hit enter to accept the new name for the new Transform
> > Group. Anyway after a very long time the software failed to crash and
> > appeared to not save a backup scene, it failed to prompt me to load a
> > recovery scene on restart after I closed the app. This morning, after
> > configuring automatic backups and looking for where the backup are
> > stored I stumbled across some files in my SI user directory. Two files
> > correspond to the exact time of software failure yesterday. One is a
> > scriptlog which holds quite a bit of useful information though I can't
> > tell if it is all there to use the script to rebuild what was lost. The
> > second is a .dmp file. It's larger than the script and is written at the
> > same time. What is this .dmp file? Can I rebuild my scene from it?(not
> > holding my breath of course). I tried opening it from XSI but no luck.
> > Any ideas?
> >
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> > NASA Langley Research Center
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