[ale] X frozen does abiword do timed backups?

[Cory T. Echols]

On 10/03, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Is there any hope?

I don't know if Abiword does timed backups or not, but its files are
xml documents, so maybe 'cat' will save you here.

Hopefully, she knows the filename.  If she can find it, she can do:

cat <file>.abw | less

She can then see how much was saved.  It may also be safe to run 'less'
directly on the Abiword file.  I'm just trying to be extra cautious.

Regardless of how much is there, she probably wants to do:

cat <file>.abw > <file>-backup.abw

Then she'll have a backup of whatever is there.

If she can get superuser priviliges, she can use:

lsof | grep abi

This will tell her all the files that are open by abiword.  You'll be
looking for a temp file of some sort.  Hopefully it will be named in a
way that makes it obvious to tell it's a working copy of her essay.  She
can then use 'cat' again to make safe copies of the temp files.

After that's done, the only thing left to do is to restart X and try
opening the copies in abiword.

There may be better ways of doing this, but this is the quickest, safest
thing I could come up with.  Hope it helps.

-- 
Cory T. Echols
ctechols at mindspring.com

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