Hi there folks!

I've been using Inkscape for a while now and I like it. But, the thing is it crashes too often!... This wouldn't be a problem if, when restarted, it rocovered the document(s) that were open and unsaved before the crash.

I saw somewhere that someone recoverd his work. So, my questions are: does Inkscape auto-saves documents? If yes, where? If no, does Inkscape do any kind of recovery?

Thanks in advance for any awnsers

Quina

quina wrote:I saw somewhere that someone recoverd his work. So, my questions are: does Inkscape auto-saves documents? If yes, where? If no, does Inkscape do any kind of recovery?

Inkscape attempts to save documents when it crashes. It often fails. When it works, it saves to

C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\

Document are called

"New document 1.2009_03_03_12_34_29.0.svg"

or somesuch.

On linux, Inkscape will try to save to

1. your home directory as filename.<datetime>.#
2. /tmp/filename.<datetime>.#
3. the current directory as filename.<datetime>.#



The development version (and so, the next release) has an autosave feature, if you turn it on, with a selectable period and save location. It's as good a reason as any to use a development version.

Hi Slow Dog, thank you for your reply.

As a matter of fact I've found the information you mentioned regarding the attempt Inkscape makes to save on crash... anyway the file I needed was not in the folder.

I think I'll try your suggestion and migrate to a newer version, this way perhaps the next time my work is not completely lost!

Never the less, Inkscape still is a great tool.

Thank you once againg,

Quina

Thanks!!! i found the file and recovery a couple of hours of work

Slow Dog wrote:

quina wrote:I saw somewhere that someone recoverd his work. So, my questions are: does Inkscape auto-saves documents? If yes, where? If no, does Inkscape do any kind of recovery?

Inkscape attempts to save documents when it crashes. It often fails. When it works, it saves to

C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\

Document are called

"New document 1.2009_03_03_12_34_29.0.svg"

or somesuch.

On linux, Inkscape will try to save to

1. your home directory as filename.<datetime>.#
2. /tmp/filename.<datetime>.#
3. the current directory as filename.<datetime>.#



The development version (and so, the next release) has an autosave feature, if you turn it on, with a selectable period and save location. It's as good a reason as any to use a development version.

How can i find it on OSX ? Doesn´t see any folder who could be the right one.
Searched in the user folder, library-application support, etc but doesn´t find the right one.

In version 0.48, if something was saved during a crash, it can be found in the same folder where the image is. Although this is for Windows, I assume it would be the same for all operating systems. The name of is the same as the original image, with a bunch of numbers appended. It looks something like this for me: ImageName.svg.2010_11_13_22_15.0.svg (I suspect the numbers represent the year_month_day_hour_minute.0.svg but I'm only guessing.)

Previous versions, I don't know, but others will probably reply with that info.