Bookmarks - not persistent?

Phil Pendlebury · Post by **Phil Pendlebury** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:46 am

Greetings all,

Sorry for the rushed post here I have about 5 minutes before other work starts:

I just went to make quick tweak to my main script and all my bookmarks have disappeared.

I can't think what woudl cause this.

I usually save the script with a new name BEFORE I begin editing it.

Then import the new script and continue editing.

I have looked back at all past versions and none of them contain any of the bookmarks that took me a long time to set up.

Is this my mistake thinking that bookmarks should be stored with the script?

I can;t give you an exact steps to repro right now but I thought I should post this up immediately.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:39 am

Hi Phil,

Bookmarks are persistent. When you save your script you should see a .bkm file in the script's folder? And when you load your script back in you should see the bookmarks in the margin.

Wonder what you're doing different that is preventing this from happening.

Phil Pendlebury · Post by **Phil Pendlebury** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:21 pm

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the quick reply as usual.

Just about to start work so can't look into this in detail now but will check back asap.

Your info about the .bkm file.

Maybe if I can find that file it will need renaming to correspond with the new script name.

My steps to repro are pretty much as I mentioned in first post:

Save script as new name.
Edit script a bit.
Save again.
Then import (newly named) script.

Phil Pendlebury · Post by **Phil Pendlebury** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:21 pm

Hi again.

Another quick post.

I haven't been able to test this properly but I did find an earlier .bkm file and after copying it, renamed it to the latest script version number I saved.

It worked and loaded my bookmarks perfectly.

I then saved the script and a new .bkm file was created as it should be.

I will post back if I can find a 100% reliable repro.

jpuziano · Post by **jpuziano** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:36 pm

Hi Phil,

Phil Pendlebury wrote:I will post back if I can find a 100% reliable repro.

It sounds like you may have found a scenario where the .bkm file is not properly created.

If you can reproduce this problem, yes please post the steps needed to reproduce and I'm sure Marcus can get it sorted.

If it can't be reproduced... then its much harder (impossible?) to know what happened... maybe the .bkm file was created but something else (a rogue script?) deleted it. Maybe the media "went bad"... any problems with your hard drive lately? Etc...

Thanks for posting on this and take care