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Story not saving in Harlowe

mariammariam
in Help! with 2.0
Hello! I'm having an issue where the save feature in twine 2 isn't working. I've lost all my work a couple times now, giving me a flashbacks to when I first started using twine 1. I've also noticed that Twine loads SUPER slow for me. I have about 28 stories and tend to use lots of macros. I thought I saw an issue about the slow loading time on BitBucket but now I can't find it, and I can't find anyone having problems with stories saving in Twine 2.

Anyone know why this could be happening? Anyone else have this problem?

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  • TheMadExileTheMadExile
    edited October 2016
    To address the loading issue (only).

    The current release version, and all previous versions, of Twine 2 do not handle either large numbers of stories or stories with large numbers of passages very well at all—combine those two and things get particular ugly. Also, my use of "large" here is something of a misnomer, it really doesn't take all that many stories or stories with many passages to kill Twine 2's startup performance.

    So far, the betas for 2.1 seem to be much more performant in that regard, so relief does seem to be on the horizon.
  • mariammariam
    Hmm. So if I save all my stories as HTML files and delete the files in Twine, I'll still be able to access them by importing them back into Twine, correct? I want to make sure before I start cleaning things out.
  • greyelfgreyelf
    Yes.

    You can use the Publish to File option to create a Story HTML file for each of your Story Projects, once you have done this you can delete the related Story Project.

    You can later recreate (re-add) a Story Project by using the Import From File option on the relevant Story HTML file.

    note: The is also a process you can use to reduce the file size of these 'backup' versions of your Story Projects but that entails importing them into a clean (empty Story List) version of Twine 2 and using the Archive option to create a version of the 'backup' file without the Story Format's Javascript engine.
  • mariammariam
    Great, thank you for clarifying the difference between those two backup methods. That's what I assumed about the Archive file, I'll stick to individual stories.

    I'll clean out my stories and report back if it solves the saving issue.
  • mariammariam
    So I cleaned out my stories and this is still happening to me. I haven't tried uninstalling/ reinstalling yet but I can later. Other than that does anyone have any advice?
  • mariammariam
    Scratch that. I just figured it out!

    Apparently leaving a Twine passage open when you're closing the program means it doesn't save the passage. Sorry if this is common knowledge. However, I've been working in Twine regularly for a couple years and I never noticed this problem in till now.
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