On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Sven Neumann <s...@gimp.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> Also I was really surprised that an auto backup isn't in GIMP already. I used >> to use a really old, backwoods photo editor and it automatically made a >> backup >> file and autosaved it every ten minutes. > > What you really need for your case is not an auto-backup feature, but > atomic save operations. Instead of writing over the existing file when > you save, GIMP should write to a temporary file in the target directory. > And only if it succeeds in writing this file completely should it move > the temporary file over the existing file. That way you wouldn't have > lost your file completely. > > Please feel free to open a bug report for this.
Better way would be to do what most text editors do. Create a backup of the old file (remember those files that end with a tilde '~'?) before overwriting it with the new save. It should be a trivial fix. -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com stu...@brankovukelic.com Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
