Rescued Items after a crash

[feeef]

When I have a crash on my system 7, I can notice "Rescued Items" in the trash. I was just wondering if those files represent the state of the RAM before the crash and if they are still usable?

I crashed my system while photoshop was open. There is a rescued file called "Photoshop Temp24162" but I am unable to open it with photoshop...

 

[Macdrone]

Did you pull it out of the trash first? Nothing usually open from inside the trash. Did you try and rename it with proper file extension? It's not named as it was not properly saved in a crash.

 

[Elfen]

"Photoshop Temp24162" is the scrap/scratch file that Photoshop uses as virtual memory. Its supposed to auto-delete when you quit Photoshop. Since you crashed, it ended up in the trash. Best to delete it, as nothing will be able to use that file again, starting Photoshop creates a new one, making the old one useless.

 

[feeef]

Thanks Elfen! Best saving my files quite often then!

 

[Elfen]

I learned that while typing to throw in a couple of Apple-S with my left thumb and index finger saves a lot of headaches.

I forget its name but there is a tiny control panel app that auto-saves your work every so often as per your adjustment of the control panel. It was for System 6 and 7. Microsoft later developed something like this for their later MS Office Suite, you need to adjust it in its preferences.

 

[feeef]

Wow, I would love to have such a tool! Autosave would be perfect for me as all the files I work with on my 9500 are stored on my Mac Pro (through AppleShare). They would automatically be saved in my time machine drive without me ever worrying about saving then on system 7.

If you can remember the name at some point, please let me know!

 

[ArmorAlley]

FileSaver from Norton Utilities is also very useful in the event of a disaster. It makes file recovery with Norton Utilities much easier.

 

[onlyonemac]

I've also noticed that folder in the Trash when my system crashes while using ResEdit. On the topic of autosaving work, there was even a keylogger extension which would allow one to reconstruct a lost file with complete accuracy because the keystrokes were saved to disk as they were typed (although of course it couldn't restore text formatting and so on) but I can't remember the name.