Daniel Polansky

Let me test it. I am on Windows. I created a read-only file temp.txt and tried to delete it by "del temp.txt", but I got access denied. I created it again and tried to remove the file using File Explorer; it asked for confirmation and then deleted the read-only file. It seems to follow that it is "del" that respects the read-only file in this way and not the file system itself, or perhaps Explorer first removed the read-only flag before deleting the file (I don't know). Dan

If you set the file to read-only on the file system level, FreeMind should be unable to overwrite the file (I think, I have not checked; I am using my own version of FreeMind and not the official one). It seems an application can delete a read-only file in Windows and create it anew, which would look like overwriting, but that would seem a rogue behavior to me unless expressly requested by the user, and I am not aware that FreeMind does anything of the sort. Dan

Indulgences.mm consists of a sequence of null bytes and nothing else, and therefore, there is no useful data in the file that could be recovered by manual editing or scripting. If you are in the habit of making regular backups (a good idea, sometimes the hard drive fails, etc.), you may be able to recover the data from a backup. I have no idea what happened to create this kind of a file. Unless you disabled automatic backups that FreeMind writes, you might be able to find a backup copy of the mind...

FreeMind does not start

This is unlikely to be a FreeMind bug so I am closing the issue.

This is unlikely to be a FreeMInd bug so I am closing the issue.

Fatal error losing data "Can't move a node to one if its children" (Mac OS Sierra)

If this happens only with JRE 10, one option is to install FreeMind-Windows-Installer-1.0.1-max-java-installer-embedded.exe, provided one in on Windows. This has JRE embedded, to be used specifically with FreeMind.