Qcad reliability with windows screen saver ?!
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:31 pm
Hello,
NB : please read all my message, wrtitten in 2 phases ! ':P'
I just had a big frustration : I was working on my project with QCAD 2.2.2.0 Pro, made a lot of modifications, regularly saved them. Before thinking about my next changes, I saved my file say at 19:00.
While I was preparing my next changes, my Windows XP sp3 went asleep with its screen saver.
When I came back on my keyboard, this screen saver was still operational. The QCAD window was showing "attention request" in the taskbar (as usual if I'm working with another application).
I opened the QCAD window and surprise, most of my changes were gone, some of the layers too, my last modifications between 18:14 and 19:00 were lost even if I saved them at 19:00. ':evil:'
So I lost my work, including layers made a few days ago and not expressly deleted. The last saved file showed 18:14 ?. I made a search : no more recent files nowhere on my hard disk.
I don't understand !
Has someone someting to say about QCAD deleting changes and saving older versions withoiut user request ?
Michel, dégouté... end of first part
While I was writing this post, I switched to the QCAD to check its version : and big surprise : all my last modifications were there... ':shock:'
Apparently nothing lost. And I can swear I had no 2 QCQD sessions, with the most recent one hidden in the taskbar ?
Again I don't understand ! and I'm not drunken or too much tired or dreaming. ':?'
Just to inform you about this strange case, even if I know as an IT professionnal that IT software is always some kind of a mystery.
Michel, abasourdi ':?:'
NB : please read all my message, wrtitten in 2 phases ! ':P'
I just had a big frustration : I was working on my project with QCAD 2.2.2.0 Pro, made a lot of modifications, regularly saved them. Before thinking about my next changes, I saved my file say at 19:00.
While I was preparing my next changes, my Windows XP sp3 went asleep with its screen saver.
When I came back on my keyboard, this screen saver was still operational. The QCAD window was showing "attention request" in the taskbar (as usual if I'm working with another application).
I opened the QCAD window and surprise, most of my changes were gone, some of the layers too, my last modifications between 18:14 and 19:00 were lost even if I saved them at 19:00. ':evil:'
So I lost my work, including layers made a few days ago and not expressly deleted. The last saved file showed 18:14 ?. I made a search : no more recent files nowhere on my hard disk.
I don't understand !
Has someone someting to say about QCAD deleting changes and saving older versions withoiut user request ?
Michel, dégouté... end of first part
While I was writing this post, I switched to the QCAD to check its version : and big surprise : all my last modifications were there... ':shock:'
Apparently nothing lost. And I can swear I had no 2 QCQD sessions, with the most recent one hidden in the taskbar ?
Again I don't understand ! and I'm not drunken or too much tired or dreaming. ':?'
Just to inform you about this strange case, even if I know as an IT professionnal that IT software is always some kind of a mystery.
Michel, abasourdi ':?:'