RECOVER BUFFER ALL Recovers all your text buffers---one at a time--by using the journal files for the buffers. You can recover buffers from different editing sessions. The effect is the same as repeating the RECOVER BUFFER command without having to specify buffer names or journal file names. Steps: 1. If a system failure interrupts your editing session, invoke EVE again. You need not use the /RECOVER qualifier and you need not specify a file. 2. Use the RECOVER BUFFER ALL command in EVE. 3. EVE then tries to recover each text buffer for which there is a journal file available. For each text buffer, EVE displays information such as the buffer name, the files associated with the buffer, and the time and date the journal file was created. EVE prompts you to choose one of the following: YES .... (Default.) Recovers the buffer, and then asks whether to recover the next buffer for which there is a buffer- change journal file, if any. NO ..... Skips this recovery. If there is another buffer to recover, EVE shows information about that buffer and asks whether to recover the buffer. QUIT ... Cancels---does NOT recover the buffer and does not continue recovery operations. Usage notes: o Recovery with buffer-change journal files restores only your text---it does NOT restore settings, key definitions, or the contents of system buffers (such as the INSERT HERE buffer) before the system failure. o The recovery does not re-create deleted files or buffers. If you deleted or renamed the source file associated with a buffer-change journal file, the recovery fails. The source file is either the file initially read into the buffer (if any), or the last version of the file written from the buffer before the system failure. o If there is more than one version of a buffer-change journal file---for example, there may be two or more MAIN.TPU$JOURNAL files from different editing sessions---the recovery uses the highest version number available. o You can recover buffers from different editing sessions. For a list of all the journal files available, use the asterisk wildcard (*): Command: RECOVER BUFFER * EVE then lists the available journal files so you can choose the one you want---see help on Choices Buffer. Alternatively, to get a list of your buffer-change journal files, use the following command: Command: DCL DIRECTORY TPU$JOURNAL:*.TPU$JOURNAL;* +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Although journaling and recovery are quite reliable, the safest way | | to protect your work against a system failure is to write out your | | edits frequently---particularly during all-day editing sessions. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Related topics: Journal Files RECOVER BUFFER SET JOURNALING