How do I save my work?

[NancyG358]

Nothing I write is being saved. It immediately disappears. How do I save my work.? I wrote the title page yesterday and the log line yesterday'. It's all gone. I wirote the titile page again today and the synopsis. Now it is all gone. I'm totally confused. And there doesn't seem to be any way to go forward. HELP! (I just downloaded this yesterday, but it's nothing like the KIT Scenarist I used to have.

[dimkanovikov]

Hello Nancy,

I'm sorry this happened to you.

Basically everything should be saved automatically, but you can use Ctrl+S (Command+S for macOS) shortcut to save content forcefully. What operating system do you use? Did you try to create another one project and change something inside it?

[dimkanovikov]

Hello @NancyG358, any updates on this issue?

[vr0n]

Bummer that folks that don't regularly use Github still use it to submit issues, lol.

I will take over for Nancy from here.

I am experiencing the same issue.

The application can get into a state where it no longer registers changes to the document and you will lose work if you don't stop immediately. When the application enters this state, "ctrl+s" will no longer work because no changes are being registered. I have tinkered with this a bit and my only guess is that it is related to the lock file getting into a funky state, but I have no clue what causes this. Most importantly for debugging, this only happens on a per-story basis, not an application-wide basis. For example, if I have 15 stories, one of them gets into this state while the other 14 still behave normally.

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.

[vr0n]

Additional note: In my case, it appears to be related to "Act" headers. I found I can save everything in "Act 2" but nothing in "Act 3" is getting saved.

I was able to fix it by removing the "Act" headers.

[emberlightstudios]

Same issue. I can't save work in a new act i created. The new act also does not show up in the cards or the breakdown, only in the screenplay text view.

Acts are buggy. My screenplay is in a state where i can type an act name then keep hitting backspace to erase the name and it will crash the program every time. Can't replicate with new screenplays though.

Also, acts are very inconvenient to add if the scenes already exist when you decide to put them in the act. You can't wrap around the scenes so you have to copy and paste inside the act block as far as I can tell. Not ideal.

[vr0n]

@emberlightstudios I'm not sure if issues are being tracked properly by the devs since we haven't since a response here, but the newest version solved a lot of issues for me. I've been unable to reproduce this issue since the latest update, but if you have a guaranteed way to reproduce it, I'd love to see if I can recreate it locally. If I can, we should probably start a different issue (this issue being called "How do I save my work?" is probably not helpful for the devs to track since we both seem to have identified the issue being related to "Acts").