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Life of a Rule
The rules you define will be saved upon Synthia's exit (not when you hide it), ie typically when SynthEyes exits. You can exit Synthia without saving any new rules by saying abort. You can make sure your rules are saved immediately by saying checkpoint.
You can also write some rules to a fileorspec in order to save them separately, for example to share them as house rules (see Categories of Rules). The saved file will contain define rules that are equivalent to, but not identical to, the exact define rules you originally entered.
Finally, you can delete some rules. For example, delete rules created today. If you delete some of the system's ground rules, they are likely to reappear when the ground rules are updated. See Rule Upgrades, Ground and House Rules, and More for information.
Note that there is no undo/redo within Synthia. You can say edit undo and
edit redo to affect changes made in SynthEyes, but these do not affect anything
done in Synthia. That's much like the real world, where your assistant can't magically undo his/her actions: many actions Synthia takes have effects in other programs that can't be undone. You can take additional actions to put things back the way they were, of course, for example to delete incorrect rules or rules being replaced.
Exercise: how can you delete the last rule you created, if it is wrong?
In the event that Synthia's rules get hopelessly messed up, you can run
user script folder, or abort Synthia then click the Script/User Script Folder in SynthEyes. In the resulting file explorer (OS X: Finder window), move up a level (ie to
syntheyes user folder) and you'll see the synthia.xml file. Delete that file, then
restart Synthia and the synthia.xml file/rules will be reconstructed from scratch.
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