Get back unsaved work

If JeffPub closes by surprise, or the power goes out, your latest work may still be safe. While you work, JeffPub keeps a spare copy of any publication that has changes you have not saved. This is called automatic recovery.

How automatic recovery works

• Every few minutes, JeffPub saves a spare copy of each publication that has unsaved changes. The default is every 10 minutes.
• JeffPub keeps the copies in an automatic recovery folder, inside the folder where it keeps its own data. You never have to look there yourself.
• The spare copy never replaces your real file.
• The copy goes away when you save the publication, close it, or quit JeffPub in the normal way.

Automatic recovery does not replace saving. If JeffPub stops, you can lose the work from the last few minutes. Press Ctrl+S often.

Recover your work

The next time you start JeffPub after a crash, the Recover Unsaved Work window opens by itself. Each line shows the publication's name, where the file was kept (or "never saved"), and when the copy was made.

1. Leave a check mark next to each publication you want back. Clear the mark on the others.
2. Click Open.
3. Check the work, then press Ctrl+S.

The recovered publication shows "(Recovered)" in the title bar until you save it. Ctrl+S asks for a name, and starts in the folder of the original file, with the original name. Pick the original name to replace the file, or choose a new name to keep both.

Pictures linked to files are found as they would be if the publication were open in the original file's folder: the ones in that folder, or in a folder inside it, load as usual. A picture linked to a file anywhere else shows its saved preview and is marked Not updated; select it and click Update Link in the Graphics Manager. A publication that was never saved has no folder, so all its linked pictures wait for Update Link.

The other buttons in the window are:

• Delete removes the checked copies for good, after it asks you to confirm.
• Not Now closes the window and leaves the copies. JeffPub offers them again the next time it starts.

JeffPub only offers copies from a run that ended by surprise. It does not offer copies from a JeffPub window that is still open.

Find recovered work later

If you closed the window and want your copies back, click File > Open, then Recover Unsaved Work. If there is nothing to recover, JeffPub says so.

Change how often it saves

Click File > Options, then the Save tab. Change Save automatic recovery information every to a number from 1 to 120 minutes. A smaller number means less to lose. The new time takes full effect the next time you start JeffPub.

Related

• Open and save publications
• Change JeffPub's settings
• Get help and report problems