Subject: Re: Autosave
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 11:43:33 CDT
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Scott Bingman <mrphido@prodigy.net>:
>
>
>>Why does autosave have to another extension? If AbiWord crashes, then it
>>reliably produces a .CRASHED file, leaving the original file in it's
>>last unsaved state. Differences can be cut and pasted between the two.
>>If so, then why could Abi not just autosave to the current document name
>>without cluttering the harddrive with extra .abw.bak files. At the very
>>least, when Abi exits then it could delete the .abw.bak files it
>>produced.
>>
>>Scott Bingman
>>
>>Question: if there is no extension defined in the autosave preferences
>>box, will it have the same effect?
yes
I think that auto-save should:
1) copy filename.abw to
filename.abw.what-ever-extension-you-have-in-the-dialog-box and
2) save the current document in filename.abw
your right in that current behaviour is counter intuitive
> Commit: remove auto-save file on exit
Does it means that if I activate auto-save, I edit a document for say 1
hour, and quit without saving the document, then I lost the last
autosaved doc?
Cheers,
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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