Ease text recreation after an application crash

Jan 10, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: dcottle

This is pretty simple, but I do it often enough that others may find it useful.

I develop digital audio using object oriented coding. It's pretty easy to lock up an experiment, and I dread having to reconstruct the recent changes I've made. Of course, you should save often, but I sometimes forget.

When this happens a force quit, and loss of all recent changes is my only choice. But I can at least save some time by switching to the finder and taking a snapshot of the window I was working on. Force quitting discards any changes, but at least I can see and retype the recent changes from the snapshot rather than trying to remember them.

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