can't save opened notebook if accidently delete the notebook in the dashboard

[linyige]

When editing a notebook in a browser tab or window, if I shutdown the notebook and delete it in the dashboard, I can't save the opened notebook . Rename and make a copy also don't work. Similar situation may happen if you share the notebook on a netdrive but use local ipython notebook servers on different computers.

[ellisonbg]

Would this situation be helped if there was an autosave/backup that allowed
you to recover from a deleted notebook? I guess I am a little confused -
delete does exactly what you expect it to - it deletes it. If we are still
using it, why would you delete it? If you delete a notebook, why would you
still want to use it?

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:02 AM, linyige notifications@github.com wrote:

When editing a notebook in a browser tab or window, if I shutdown the
notebook and delete it in the dashboard, I can't save the opened notebook .
Rename and make a copy also don't work. Similar situation may happen if you
share the notebook on a netdrive but use local ipython notebook servers on
different computers.

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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com

[takluyver]

@ellisonbg - if I understand rightly, he's talking about accidentally deleting a notebook while you still have it open. Most applications will still let you save the file in that case.

[linyige]

ellisonbg exactly knows what I mean.
I share my notebooks on a netdrive. The situation is, I created a notebook on one machine, but I forgot to save it. The file name was like Untitled1. When I opened another ipython notebook server on a different machine, the file was just an empty notebook and I deleted it. Later when I wanted to save the notebook on the first machine, it wouldn't allow me to do that.
Auto save will help because if I know the content of the notebook, I would not delete it. Recover from deleted file may not be very useful if I have to go back to the second machine to recover it and go to the first machine again to save it.

[ellisonbg]

OK I understand the usage case and agree that this should work as you
describe.

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:26 AM, linyige notifications@github.com wrote:

ellisonbg exactly knows what I mean.
I share my notebooks on a netdrive. The situation is, I created a notebook
on one machine, but I forgot to save it. The file name was like Untitled1.
When I opened another ipython notebook server on a different machine, the
file was just an empty notebook and I deleted it. Later when I wanted to
save the notebook on the first machine, it wouldn't allow me to do that.
Auto save will help because if I know the content of the notebook, I would
not delete it. Recover from deleted file may not be very useful if I have
to go back to the second machine to recover it and go to the first machine
again to save it.

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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com

[ellisonbg]

This is fixed in master.