Off the top of my head, I thought we popped up a dialog on launch (or
an attempt to open) that said, "hey, I found an autosave from the last
crash. Should I open that?" The user should never dig through the
autosave directory. Is this not what is happening? Did you try just
loading the file that was open during a crash? Maybe something is broken?
Ted.
On 10/18/22 12:00 PM, Patrick May wrote:
Rosegarden really needs improved user interface for managing autosaves.
As it is right now when rosegarden crashes, to try to recover what's
left of their work, it seems like the user has to manually navigate to
$HOME/.local/share/rosegarden, sort through the files by date to find
the file that's relevant in the long list of files which all have names
like "oigjewgj3j65j3oi74j6j34t5juij4oi74", and then finally rename the
files to have the .rg extension so that rosegarden will actually allow
you to open them.
This requires the user also to find the extremely obscure location of
the autosave folder themself. Or at least, I had to. The information on
https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/doc:companion-en is incorrect or
outdated, it says the $HOME/autosave is used for autosaves, it isn't.
Maybe you could add something like a "recent autosaves" sub menu in the
File menu.
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