PRT crashed, are my scrpt lost?
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No, unfortunately whatever you write will be saved when you exit thw platform using the toolbar commands.
I always download the ITF file to my PC at elast once per hour (it depends on how much I coded).
Sometimes, instead of downloading to my PC, I simply copy and paste the code into a text editor (I use Notepad++, but any editor is fine for the job).
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I used to get caught out all the time with it, in early days.
Now I make sure I ctrl/S regularly and save.
Also, I make sure I have added code to a chart, sometimes edits not saved.
Especially if edits don’t change code logic, like comments.
Also, I use the export Personal Data, under HELP on main menu bar, regular, with different file names so have different versions.
That’s in case I delete something by accident and don’t find out till weeks later.
In past I have copied code to other editor and used snipping tool to take screen shot of code on PC.
And at one point even set up a screen recorder just in case.
The latter causes its own problems, with computer resources.
Already do, good idea to point it out. I think yyyymmdd filename format works best with file list indexing.
I setup ddmmyyyy and it mixes the months up.
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Yes saw you already did that, just a thought that an automagical way of doing it, would be a timesaver of sorts – could also append date-time proper so a valid time stamp. The file attributes have it but not the name (just a lazy sod here hehe).
If you want to have a laugh *cough*, I was – manually – downloading ALL tweaked indicator iterations and then saw GraHals and your post – hamburgers with the lot I thought. So not quite a lazy sod here but there’s ways to be smarter about what we do, (what I said is basically an extension of what you do anyway, just pre-canned).
FWIW, genuinely excited to not have to manually dig it all out, bang, done, one file ….. sorted!
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Hi
A nice pro tip is to use the quick “printer” button/function when editing a script in the upper right corner, and setting the default printing to Windows PDF.It’s super easy when editing a script to just press the printer button and your script gets saved 🙂
//Regards
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