I’ve got a strange one here…
Today, one of my passages stopped saving my work. I could edit it and test the game, and even edit it some more. But if I went back into the project after I exited it (or closed the browser window), the passage showed the content that existed prior to my edits.
I’m hesitant to do anything drastic at this point. I am publishing revisions as I go. But this has turned into a blocker for finishing and I’m hoping someone has a solution.
Btw, do passages have some sort of memory limitation? This one is fairly long.
Thanks!
Tim
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Are you using the hosted or downloaded version of Twine 2?
On your story list page how much space available (lower right corner) do you have?
How long (rough number of words) is the passage in question?
Also, I forgot to mention… At the same time that this began happening, this project and all of my other projects would always have (seemingly random) reorganized nodes when opened.
The passage contains 991 words (6,869 characters, including spaces).
Opening the development console as you edit might yield more information as you work, i.e. if Twine runs into an error saving a change, it usually will display there. You can do that in Safari by turning on the Develop menu (Advanced section of the preferences), then choose Error Console from the Develop menu.
I opened my project and a passage was missing — just gone! It had been two hours since I added it. I looked in some of my older published files and couldn’t find the passage, so I resigned to adding it again (same name), etc. When I added it, I opened it and it was a new, empty passage; it didn’t have links going out to anywhere. But then I closed it and saw that it had text in it and it was linking to other passages. So I opened it again and it contained all of the text that I had input into it previously!
So, I published the file (which worked fine). But when I looked at the editor again, some of the nodes had been rearranged.
Either way, I definitely think the browser console can tell us more too. Please try keeping that open as you work and let us know if errors show up there.
I will look into any console errors and report back.
@klembot: I believe the hosted version requires a network connection to download the Harlowe / Snowman story format files.
Also, the file I exported that you can see at the bottom of the screen is not displaying changes either.