On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:29 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: > 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.
It is actually a very difficult fix. There are hundreds of save plug-ins and all would have to be fixed. Also GIMP plug-ins may save using a helper plug-in that transparently enables saving to remote locations. It is definitely not trivial to fix this. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
