Re: Autosave user interface

   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 outdated, it says the $HOME/autosave is used for autosaves, it isn't.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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