When does notebook save worksheets persistently?
It's not clear to me when worksheets are saved in a persistant state (in a file).
I've lost changes I've made to worksheets many times after properly "save and quit"-ing. Later if either the VMware, notebook or windows crashes, or is not shutdown properly. The only way to restore data is to cross your fingers and hope that snapshots have been made (when are those made? can their creation be triggered manually?).
What's the proper way of shutting down notebook so that this issue can be avoided?
I'm using the VMware image with SAGE 4.6.
What version of Sage are you working with? We disabled autosaving snapshots because it used a lot of process, but if Save and Quit isn't working, that is definitely a big problem. Maybe it's time to revisit the autosave question... But unfortunately I don't have an answer for your browser problem. I don't understand why Save and Quit would crash your computer, so this is in a comment.
I wasn't clear enough with my question: The browser does not cause a crash or anything. But if a crash or something else cause an improper shutdown of the VM or notebook I've experienced that changes after a save is lost.
I should also point out that snapshots are still being saved in my version, at some unknown interval or something else.