On 2020-06-23 20:05, Gregory Pittman wrote:
On 6/23/20 6:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm using Scribus v1.5.5 on a Debian/Testing machine.
I thought I had a successful day working on a document but then I went back
into it and found it had reverted to yesterday's last save. I had saved it
umpteen times during the day because the Story Editor keeps throwing an error
that crashes Scribus. I don't think it happened today, which was good, but I've
been leaving the Story Editor after making a few edits, saving the file then
going back into the Story Editor to do some work.
I've even restarted Scribus a couple of times today, just to be safe, before
I'd work on a new section of the file.
As I was paging down through the file, more carefully than I usually do to
verify the content and look was correct, I noticed things I'd changed had
reverted. The file date was also from the previous evening.
There were also some "emergency save" files from yesterday - possibly from the
Story Editor errors, but they were time stamped even earlier than my file.
It goes without saying that a basic operation like File | Save should work or at least
produce a popup message if it fails. After all the crashes yesterday, I'd even looked for
an "Autosave" file every so many minutes function, but there doesn't seem to be
one.
I understand that running a testing version of Debian means that the software
may not always work. However the silent failure to save my file today is as bad
as if the software had erased it. Either way, I'd be back to my overnight
backup version.
Hi Gary,
Under Preferences > Document Setup > Saving and Undo, there is an Autosave
option (which I thought by default was selected), along with interval and other
features. You will find these ending with the suffix .autosave
Greg
Found it, and it was turned on. That makes the failure to save even more
outrageous.
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