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torifile
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2005-05-14, 13:11

I've been starting to use DEVONthink again. It's a pretty nifty app. Anyway, it uses a lot of the frameworks provided by the system for its core functions, including its text stuff. I had made several documents with lists and one day a bunch of my text disappeared! I was ticked, but it turns out it's a 10.4 bug.

TextEdit lists may appear to lose content

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mportant: If your TextEdit document list is missing or has been truncated, please note that the content isn't actually gone; it's just not visible to you. However, if you save the document again, the invisible information will indeed be lost.

For example, if you create the following list in a TextEdit document...

- first
- second
- third
... then save the document and open it again, you might only see this:
-
The note talks about TextEdit but it seems it affects all apps that use the text functions of the OS. I don't know what triggers the loss of text but it's something I thought people should be aware of. Come on 10.4.1!
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