Hello Damien
Thinking of what you wrote in your post, it looks to me that the project you saved contains only Wandora's base ontology i.e. topics and associations that Wandora loads automatically when the application starts. Did you really create more topics and associations in the topic map addition to the default ones before you saved the project?
You can try this small test:
* Restart Wandora application.
* Bottom-right corner contains now two numbers beside the layer name. You should see "Base (26,48)" meaning the Base layer contains 26 topics and 48 associations.
* Select topic Wandora class in the topics panel.
* Right click the Wandora class topic and select menu option New topic... . A create new topic dialog should open.
* Write "test" to the Base name field and press Create button. Wandora informs it has added default subject identifier to the test topic. Ok.
* Now you should see the test in the topics panel. Also note, the topic count number has increased by one.
* Select menu option File > Save project. Give a unique filename for the project. Notice the folder in which Wandora saves the project.
* Restart Wandora application.
* Check the topic and association counts are again 26 and 48. Can't see the test topic anymore.
* Select menu option File > Open project.
* Locate the project you saved few steps ago.
* Load the project.
* Now, if everything went ok, you should see the test topic again in the topics panel and topic count is 27.
Tell, what happened.
The finder panel uses regular expressions. Thus, searching for [null] (with explicit brackets) should return all topics.
Just one more thing. I have been assuming you are using a memory topic map [1]. But are you? The picture would be more understandable, if you are playing with database layers [2].
Kind Regards,
Aki / Wandora Team
[1]
http://wandora.org/wiki/Memory_topic_map[2]
http://wandora.org/wiki/Database_topic_map