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Recovering Files HP EDIT maintains a recovery file in your logon group that always contains a reasonably current copy of the text you are editing. You can recover the contents of your editing session if a system failure occurs, except for the possible loss of up to 20 of the most recent changes, by accessing this recovery file. Recovery Process HP EDIT creates the recovery file Kdddhhmm when you text in a file and deletes it when you leave HP EDIT or text in another file. The file remains in your group if HP EDIT terminates unexpectedly. In the naming convention used for the recovery file, ddd represents the Julian day of the year, and hhmm represents the time of day when you created the file. Recovery Procedures To recover lost text, text in the recovery file when starting HP EDIT or by using the Text File command from the current session. HP EDIT displays certain information about the file and asks whether or not you want to continue the restoration process. If you indicate that you want to continue, HP EDIT attempts a recovery and you can continue to edit the file. Another method of handling unexpected system failures is to use the automatic keep feature, called Autokeep, discussed earlier in this chapter. Since this feature periodically saves the contents of your editing session to the default file, HP EDIT overwrites the previous file contents. You can create your own back-up file to avoid unintentionally overwriting the original file. By changing the file name when you first start editing, Autokeep saves the contents of your editing session to the named back-up file. When you have finished editing, you can save your text to the original file name. File Size Limit The [REV BEG]MPE V recovery file contains 256,000 records. The MPE XL recovery file contains 2,000,000 records.[REV END] You may run out of space when editing very large documents if you do something that affects every line, because the recovery file consumes additional space for internal record keeping. If you reach the recovery limit, HP EDIT displays a message indicating the condition and prompts you to save the file and exit.
NOTE Unexpected and potentially harmful results can occur if you ignore this message and attempt further editing within the current session. If necessary, it is permissible to move to any existing child sessions and exit from them in order to exit from the overflowed session.