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Re: Crash recovery
Ctrl-s should be a reflex... Like breathing air, you never notice you are doing it but it necessary
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Re: Crash recovery
Auto-save has been requested, but it is a pretty dangerous feature too, because one may not want to auto-save at random moments (even if he or she thinks they want). I am not sure whether we need this feature.
There was an idea about more complex solution, an auto-save of copies of open documents, but that would be a big one. This is not too often requested, thus I am not sure. Thoughts?
There was an idea about more complex solution, an auto-save of copies of open documents, but that would be a big one. This is not too often requested, thus I am not sure. Thoughts?
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davenz
Re: Crash recovery
Autosave could possibly be added as an option, but I for one wouldn't use it; it is potentially dangerous because of the possibility of overwriting something by mistake.
On a completely different note; the whole Microsoft Word/Office 'recover last document on crash' system is kind of cool; several other of my programs do that now as well. They basically create a temp file that ghosts/clones the file(s) being worked on, then if the app crashes, the clone/temp file(s) is/are retrieved and offered as a recovered document. This has its place, especially with software that crashes often, though I don't think I've ever had a crash with any of my Blumentals software, at least nothing where I have lost work. That's not to say it doesn't happen though, as has been pointed out.
Back to autosave; in applications that have this feature it is usually set to save every X minutes (most I've seen are set to 10 minutes by default), though I think it would only be useful in a crash situation if it saved every 5 seconds; I can do a boat-load of work in 1 minute, let alone 10. This makes such a feature almost pointess anyway. I am in the habit of saving (control + S) every other keystroke after using a very unstable editor a while back and the habit stuck, so none of these features would interest me, though I can see how they could be very useful for some users. I guess it should be logged as a feature request for future versions and other users can +1 or not as they see fit.
My 2 cents
Dave
davethompson.co.nz
On a completely different note; the whole Microsoft Word/Office 'recover last document on crash' system is kind of cool; several other of my programs do that now as well. They basically create a temp file that ghosts/clones the file(s) being worked on, then if the app crashes, the clone/temp file(s) is/are retrieved and offered as a recovered document. This has its place, especially with software that crashes often, though I don't think I've ever had a crash with any of my Blumentals software, at least nothing where I have lost work. That's not to say it doesn't happen though, as has been pointed out.
Back to autosave; in applications that have this feature it is usually set to save every X minutes (most I've seen are set to 10 minutes by default), though I think it would only be useful in a crash situation if it saved every 5 seconds; I can do a boat-load of work in 1 minute, let alone 10. This makes such a feature almost pointess anyway. I am in the habit of saving (control + S) every other keystroke after using a very unstable editor a while back and the habit stuck, so none of these features would interest me, though I can see how they could be very useful for some users. I guess it should be logged as a feature request for future versions and other users can +1 or not as they see fit.
My 2 cents
Dave
davethompson.co.nz
Re: Crash recovery
Just make the auto-save into an "auto-save-backup" function do this:
Suppose the file you are working on is thefile.php
Auto-save-backup occasionally saves the file in a temp folder as thefile.php.tmp
When Webuilder crashes, you just go grab the last auto-saved version from the temp folder, and move on with your life.
If you want to get fancy, Webuilder could ask if you want to review files in that temp folder after a crash and restart has occurred (just like MS Office).
I just lost about half an hour of brilliant coding work tonight - thus auto-save-backup is a useful feature.
-Gary.
Suppose the file you are working on is thefile.php
Auto-save-backup occasionally saves the file in a temp folder as thefile.php.tmp
When Webuilder crashes, you just go grab the last auto-saved version from the temp folder, and move on with your life.
If you want to get fancy, Webuilder could ask if you want to review files in that temp folder after a crash and restart has occurred (just like MS Office).
I just lost about half an hour of brilliant coding work tonight - thus auto-save-backup is a useful feature.
-Gary.