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Neo User’s Guide
Maintaining your files
To delete all files:
1. From any workspace, press
ctrl-option-
a
-clear file
.
2. Press
Y
to permanently delete all the files (including named files
not in workspaces); press
N
to return to the workspace without
deleting files.
Recovering data
As long as you haven’t deleted a file or entered new text in a file, you
may be able to recover text you’ve cleared.
may be able to recover text you’ve cleared.
To recover a file:
1. Make sure you’re in the workspace of the file you want to recover.
The screen appears blank.
2. Press
option-
a
-R
.
The file should reappear onscreen. If it doesn’t, you can try an
emergency recovery, which may place “garbage” characters in your
file that you later have to remove.
emergency recovery, which may place “garbage” characters in your
file that you later have to remove.
To perform an emergency recovery of the entire file:
1. Make sure you’re in the workspace of the file you want to recover.
The screen appears blank.
2. Press
shift-ctrl-option-
a
-R
. Your file should reappear, possibly
along with a quantity of garbage characters.
3. Scroll to the location where the garbage characters begin and
press
shift-end
to select from the cursor to the end of the file,
then press
delete
.