Unfortunately, it is really easy to accidentally delete objects in projects. There is no confirmation if you hit the X button. Only solution currently is to save often, and save a copy to EZ-Cloud so that you have a backup. I am sorry to say it is unlikely you will be able to recover your script.

Another tip (I don't think this is what happened to you, but for other readers), if you start with one of the EZ-Robot example projects, be sure to save your own copy with its own name. Every time ARC is updated, the example projects are over-written with the latest version, so if you have modified one without saving your own copy, all your work will be lost.

Alan

That´s bad news and if I may say so, bad software design. I will now use an external editor to write scripts and copy/paste them to ARC. Thanks for your reply!

We (me and other customers) have asked DJ to fix this several times. He has a very long todo list and I think he considers this one minor. I agree that it is a fairly significant design issue, but he doesn't always agree with me

Alan

If it is minor there should at least be a big warning sign. If I click save somewhere, I tend to take that for granted and it should be "save". Not save for the moment and forgotten without notice. There are so many subfolders in \Documents\ARC one for scripts would be nice.

Just to clarify, it isn't an issue with saving, it is an issue with it being too easy to accidentally delete objects from your project before saving (making an assumption that this is what happened because it is the most common cause of this complaint... Could be a new bug or some other problem, but I have never seen it, and we aren't seeing other complaints of it).

All ARC objects, including scripts are save in the project name.ezb file, which is a form of XML file, so there would not be a separate file or folder just for scripts.

Another option other than saving to the cloud as well as locally, would be to set up a windows task or other script activity to periodically archive copies of your .ezb files to a backup directory with archived names. A lot of work to get around a product bug that DJ really should take care of, but since there are workarounds that may be why it hasn't moved to the top of the todo list.

Alan

Thank you techguru. I set this to resolved and start typing the script again.

@count74 I did the same thing when I first installed ARC wrote a script hit save and shut down. then went back in and file was not saved. Checked hard disk for file name (The name I thought I was saving it as in top left corner of script panel) but no script found. I needed to save the project. Like you I probably invested 3 hours into the script. I think the lessons learned (That I still can't learn) is if you want to do something search for a tutorial first. I agree close versus save would be more appropriate name for the button, especially when you think you are assigning a script name before you save.

The original buttons were "close" but users were confused because they didn't know if the script was saved in the control... so the configuration dialogues of controls were changed to save.

Now, there's people having a different opinion. So, which one is correct? Since out of tens of thousands of users, two people have brought it up... we're going to keep the button as save

@count74 Ezrobot does recommend that you begin learning the product using the robot program in the learn section. We've worked really really really really hard at making the best videos that educate users with robotics - but they are only effective if they're used so check out the robot program and things will be clear and fun!