Re: Saving projects
Lorenzo Sutton <[email protected]>
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On 10/12/2023 15:29, Yves Guillemot wrote: > > Gesendet: >> Sonntag, 10. Dezember 2023 um 13:35 Uhr Von: "Lorenzo Sutton" >> <[email protected]> An: [email protected] > >> >> This is a tricky one IMHO because on the other hand when working on >> project I also want to be able to always save and not risk losing any >> change which comes up. >> >> So any warning like that should definitely be a switchable on/off >> option. >> > > > Le Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:42:16 +0100, > MST via Rosegarden-user <[email protected]> a écrit > : > >> How about an incremenial numbering feature while working: >> You open an existing file "song" and it immediately becomes >> "song000", ten minutes (adjustable in default settings menu) later it >> becomes "song001". I am no coder, is something doable? > > > > Yes it's doable and should be easy to do, but what about the autosave > feature ? How many files would be created at the end of a session ? > > I presume it should be better to allways save in a temporary file > then ask where to save this file when shutting down RG or opening a new > file. > > Anyway it should be a switchable option because IMHO such warnings are > awful and don't really work: when I have answered "yes" several dozens > of times to the same question, the next time it will be asked I will not > read it and automatically answer "yes" whatever the right answer should > be. This more-or-less UNTESTED bash script would launch rosegarden with a selected file, make a back-up copy straight a way and then watch for changes (in this case every 5 seconds, maybe a bit extreem... but could be easily changed), and if a change (based on md5) detected save another back-up copy. Not sure how this could be 'embedded' in rosegarden and how cases like 'do not overwrite existing backups (or do)' be handled... https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3629509 Lorenzo _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user