use the backup file in case of problems

autojump

@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ def save(path_dict,dic_file):
     f.close()
     try:
         os.rename(dic_file+".tmp",dic_file) #cf. http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
+        import time #backup file
+        if not os.path.exists(dic_file+".bak") or time.time()-os.path.getmtime(dic_file+".bak")>86400:
+            import shutil
+            shutil.copy(dic_file,dic_file+".bak")
     except OSError:
         pass #Fail quietly, this usually means a concurrent autojump process already did the job
-    import time #backup file
-    if not os.path.exists(dic_file+".bak") or time.time()-os.path.getmtime(dic_file+".bak")>86400:
-        import shutil
-        shutil.copy(dic_file,dic_file+".bak")
 
 def forget(path_dict,dic_file):
     """Gradually forget about directories. Only call from the actual jump since it can take time"""
@@ -78,6 +78,19 @@ def find_matches(dirs,pattern,path_dict,result_list,re_flags,max_matches):
         if match(path,pattern,path_dict,re_flags):
             uniqadd(result_list,path)
 
+def open_dic(dic_file,error_recovery=False):
+    try:
+        aj_file=open(dic_file)
+        path_dict=cPickle.load(aj_file)
+        aj_file.close()
+        return path_dict
+    except (IOError,EOFError):
+        if not error_recovery and os.path.exists(dic_file+".bak"):
+            import shutil
+            shutil.copy(dic_file+".bak",dic_file)
+            return open_dic(dic_file,True)
+        else: return {} #if everything fails, return an empty file
+
 #Main code
 try:
     optlist, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], 'a',['stat','import','completion']) 
@@ -86,13 +99,7 @@ except getopt.GetoptError, e:
     exit(1)
 
 dic_file=os.path.expanduser("~/.autojump_py")
-try:
-    aj_file=open(dic_file)
-    path_dict=cPickle.load(aj_file)
-    aj_file.close()
-except IOError:
-    path_dict={}
-
+path_dict=open_dic(dic_file)
 if ('-a','') in optlist:
     if(args[-1] != os.path.expanduser("~")): # home dir can be reached quickly by "cd" and may interfere with other directory
         dicadd(path_dict,args[-1])