On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 19:28 +0200, michalwd1979 wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm playing around with 3d version of pcb from git, and today I've > lost about 3 hours of my work because of a strange crash. I've clicked > in drc window and pcb exited leaving only a few "failed to create > pixmap" lines in terminal. No segfault no any other info. I couldn't > reproduce this, so I'm not sure what really happened. > > The other problem was that pcb did not leave any backup files. I've > doubly checked it and it seems that pcb does not write any backup > files for me (I've set autobackup to 300s). How the backups should be > written? I understand that every 300s is this true? Oh, I almost > forgot: I've changed #define BACKUP_NAME in globalconst.h from > "PCB.%.i8.backup" to "/tmp/PCB.%.i8.backup", but this should make any > difference (I think).
If the board has a file-name, then its back is called "filename.pcb-" The PCB.%i.backup stuff is only used for a board which hasn't been saved yet. See src/file.c, around line 1046 in the "Backup (void)" function. Regards, Peter C. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user