MenTaLguY wrote:
On Fri, 05 May 2006 19:39:37 +0000, Terry Hancock <hancock@...1624...> wrote:
I think it actually tries to autosave before crashing when something goes wrong.
Yes; Inkscape makes a best effort to save copies of all open files somewhere before crashing. (To avoid the risk of corruption, it won't save over the original file.)
Of course, it goes without saying that a crash means something you didn't predict happened with the code, so I'm a little distrustful of Inkscape's ability to do this.
Would it make more sense to do time-based or even idle-time-based autosaves (I.e. if nothing happens for N minutes, and the current data is not saved, make an automatic backup)? I know some programs have implemented features like this. It can be irritating if it decides to do a backup right when you're starting to do something, but it would be really nice if something calls you away from your project, and you forget to save it.
Of course, that's a bad habit, but still...
Cheers, Terry