On 2/6/10 23:33, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
There was a bug in the emergency saving code that would cause pretty much any file name to get some invalid characters appended (the terminating null character was in the wrong place).
Thank you for fixing the file name issue (I closed bug #379375).
~suv wrote:
Until Inkscape has a built-in crash recovery feature IMHO a central location for emergency save is preferable. But maybe that's just me ;)
Hmm... I feared as much. Basically on Windows the problem is that the "home" directory is a VERY inconvenient place to put things (no one ever looks there, although I think it's easier to access in newer versions of Windows). So at least for me it makes much more sense to put the emergency save file right where the file was that I was working on. After the crash I'll probably want to continue working on it anyway so I'll bump into it (instead of having to go to my home dir explicitly).
But it's not a huge issue for me. I can live with a few emergency save files piling up in my home dir, it's not as if I ever look there anyway :) If desired the order can be very easily switched around.
After thinking more about it I retract my previous comment about using a central location for emergency-saved files: it seems more logical to store them at the original file's location and more likely what users in general expect. I might be biased due to generating too many emergency-saved files I have no interest in keeping or reusing.
~suv