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* org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
@ 2013-12-02 11:21 Rainer Stengele
  2013-12-02 11:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
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From: Rainer Stengele @ 2013-12-02 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

All,

last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file.
3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted.
WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures.
Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines.
I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow.
Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from
subversion and insert the changes since the corruption.

This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode.
Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well.

Maybe someone has an idea.

I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.

Rainer

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2013-12-02 11:21 org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file Rainer Stengele
2013-12-02 11:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-12-02 12:06   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-12-02 15:37 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-02 19:11   ` Nicolas Richard
2013-12-03  8:33   ` Johann Spies
2013-12-03 12:58     ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 17:23       ` Johann Spies
2013-12-03 17:37         ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 17:43         ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-03 17:53           ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 18:30             ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-03 19:29               ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-12-04  9:43               ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 18:15         ` org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file (solved backups) Johann Spies
2013-12-06 14:41       ` org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file Johann Spies
2013-12-07 10:48         ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-04  8:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-12-04 11:26   ` Rainer Stengele
2013-12-04 13:16     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-12-12 14:48 ` Rainer Stengele

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