[Tb] Serious bug that erases information

I've informed Eastgate about this and Dr Bernstein has suggested
that it will be fixed in the next release, but I think that a warning
might be helpful (this concerns v. 2.0):
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Make a new Tinderbox file, and arrange to have a volume
mounted that you can unmount. Make a new note, and link
a file from this volume to the note. ? ?
Save the Tinderbox file, and look at it: you'll see the note's ? ?
file attribute. Now eject the volume, and save the Tinderbox ? ? ?
file again. You'll see that the note's file attribute has ? ? ? ?
vanished from the Tinderbox file. It seems that if a path no ? ? ?
longer exists then Tinderbox deletes it from the XML without ? ? ?
warning. ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ?Needless to say, this is a disaster for anyone who stores links ? ?
to files on volumes that might not happen to be mounted all the ? ? ? ?
time. If you merely take your file to another computer to work
on it, you are likely to lose all of your file links. ?
Received on Wed Sep 10 18:11:17 2003