[IPython-dev] Checkpoints & empty directories

[Brian Granger]

I forget what we decided about atomic saving - will 4.0 have a way to disable it? I am still running into these issues on nfs file systems

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> On Jul 23, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> What version of the notebook are you running, and is there anything special about the folder where you're saving  (e.g. is it a network drive, or synced with something like Dropbox)? That sounds like an issue with the atomic saving.
> 
> Thomas
> 
>> On 22 July 2015 at 09:26, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> While running the Jupyter notebook, I periodically see messages that the notebook is autosaved.
>> 
>> Today, I opened Windows Explorer in the directory where all of my notebooks are stored. I was surprised to see 30+ directories named with the last notebook I had created, along with a unique
>> sequence number appended to "ipnb"
>> 
>> I was under the impression that each of these directories contained snapshots of my notebook at various stages of its evolution, however all of the directories are empty.
>> 
>> What is the purpose of creating all of the empty directories?
>> Is there a configuration setting to change this?
>> 
>> While this isn't a problem, it's just a nuisance, the code and notes I had entered into that notebook
>> is nowhere to be found.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
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