Text files + styles = lost work?
Posted: 2010-10-18 06:08:15
Is there any way to recover styles applied to a text file?
Here's my problem:
I opened a plain text file using NWP and spent four days tagging it by assigning intricate style information to it (colors, font size, etc). Saved it regularly. When I was finally done after four days, I closed NWP. God was I upset when I opened the file again the next day, only to find that all my tagging had disappeared into thin air!
Now I understand that I myself may be to blame for acting on the assumption that NWP would save style information for a pure text file. But contrary to our 'beloved' (ehemm) MS Word, NWP never alerted me to the fact that upon saving in the original plain text format, all style information would be lost. I should have been offered the chance to save as RTF or whatever.
Now, since I spent so much time in tagging this text: is there any way to recover the lost information? From temporary files, or from a backup of temporary files (Time Machine…)?
Thank you for any help!
Albrecht
Here's my problem:
I opened a plain text file using NWP and spent four days tagging it by assigning intricate style information to it (colors, font size, etc). Saved it regularly. When I was finally done after four days, I closed NWP. God was I upset when I opened the file again the next day, only to find that all my tagging had disappeared into thin air!
Now I understand that I myself may be to blame for acting on the assumption that NWP would save style information for a pure text file. But contrary to our 'beloved' (ehemm) MS Word, NWP never alerted me to the fact that upon saving in the original plain text format, all style information would be lost. I should have been offered the chance to save as RTF or whatever.
Now, since I spent so much time in tagging this text: is there any way to recover the lost information? From temporary files, or from a backup of temporary files (Time Machine…)?
Thank you for any help!
Albrecht