I started up BS3 and got the message about another instance of BS running, potential data loss, but continue if it shut down improperly. There was no icon saying BS was running, so I went to Task Manager and it showed BS. I forced shutdown (maybe a mistake) and then started BS, came up with about 12 recipes missing. Thru Help, found Recipe Archive but only about half were there, which I was able to restore. So I then went to my laptop which I had been using up until about a year ago, started BS, and got the same message. This seemed a bit too cosmic to me, but I went to the archive on that one and it was empty. I did find a few of the missing recipes in My Recipes on the older machine that I was able to copy to the new one, but still lost 3.
So: 1) Was this pure coincidence that both machines had the same error (I never saw it before today)
2) Why didn't my new archive have more in it 3) why didn't my old archive have anything 4) what is the best method to avoid data loss for this or other problems?
So: 1) Was this pure coincidence that both machines had the same error (I never saw it before today)
2) Why didn't my new archive have more in it 3) why didn't my old archive have anything 4) what is the best method to avoid data loss for this or other problems?