How can I recover the source code when TikZEdt crash?

Question

Sometimes TikZEdt crashes because of some bugs in the program, and I did not save the source file.

Is there a way to recover the source code in that case?

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Answer 1

TikZEdt usually have continuous compilation on, and it stores the temporary TeX file for compilation in the temporary folder.

In some operating systems the path is /tmp/. Search for the most recently edited TeX files there, the file name could be TE_temp_preview12345.tex.