Daniel Polansky

On the Fedora distribution of GNU/Linux, you can use the binary zip distribution of FreeMind, I think. At the end of the day, one runs FreeMind by passing freemind.jar to the JRE; Freemind.exe and whatever Linux binding there is should do just that. Moreover, if you like the FreeMind's fork Freeplane (I don't), chances are it is available in repositories for the direct command-line insall. --Dan

FreeMind is software written in Java, compiled into byte code that then runs in Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It is the JRE that interfaces Windows, for the most part. Any incompatilibities between a new Windows version and FreeMind would sooner be introduced by the Java runtime itself; FreeMind does not directly interface Windows, with few exceptions such as calling cmd.exe to open a hyperlink (I think). But then, since JRE has many users and corporate backing, such incompatibilities would be...

FreeMind is software written in Java, compiled into byte code that then runs in Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It is the JRE that interfaces Windows. Any incompatilibities between a new Windows version and FreeMind would sooner be introduced by the Java runtime itself; FreeMind does not directly interface Windows, with few exceptions such as calling cmd.exe to open a hyperlink (I think). But then, since JRE has many users and corporate backing, such incompatibilities would be flagged and addressed...

FreeMind is software written in Java, compiled into byte code that then runs in Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It is the JRE that interfaces Windows. Any incompatilibities between a new Windows version and FreeMind would sooner be introduced by the Java runtime itself; FreeMind does not directly interface Windows. But then, since JRE has many users and corporate backing, such incompatibilities would be flagged and addressed by these users. While it cannot in principle be ruled out that some element...

Thank you for sharing this information with FreeMind users. Can you tell us the operating system and Java version you are using? Regards, Dan

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...