Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> writes:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:14:10PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
Is there something we can do to make that emergency save as bulletproof as possible? This is one of the worst bugs to have IMO. Of course, crashes should not happen in the first place, but if they happen...
Of course, the ultimate danger is a power failure or kernel panic; in such cases inkscape will never get a chance to do an emergency save. What to be done in this situation probably could use some discussion. I would think some people would feel this is not an error situation that Inkscape is responsible for handling; others may say it means Inkscape must be able to do interim automatic backups.
Some people say that having a concept like "Save" in the first place is an anachronism, and that we should have apps do auto-save constantly (probably with versioning and whatnot).
Anyway. Thanks to ishmal's help on IRC, I started a page on the wiki that describes where to find your file if Inkscape manages to save it:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/EmergencySave
Cheers, Colin