Expected autosave behaviour with unsaved file?

Lorenzo Sutton <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:11:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.rosegarden.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

I noticed that if autosave is turned, Rosegarden autosaves a file in the 
$HOME/.local/share/rosegarden/autosave directory even if the file is 
'unsaved' (and some editing activity has been going on so that the satus 
is 'unsaved' meaning when you have an asterisk shown in the main window 
title).

However if I 'crash' (kill) rosegarden and start it up again no clue is 
provided about an auto-save file.

On the other hand when working with a saved file autosave 'recovery' 
works as expected by prompting that an autosave file exists and if you 
want to recover that one (albeit that sometimes autosave files get 'left 
behind' in the directory).

I actually think that - as strange and contradictory as it might seem - 
being able to recover an autosaved unsaved file could be useful in some 
cases. I know, one should immediately save the project as you start 
working etc. But autosave features are ideally there to help users when 
they make a mistake (like forgetting to save their latest masterpiece 
and their laptop dies as they were too concentrated on making music :-)


Insights?

Lorenzo