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 ':?:'
Qcad reliability with windows screen saver ?!
Moderator: andrew
Andrew, thank you for your quick reply, as usual
Could be screensaver's fault, yes ?
I better believe that somehow the windows taskbar was keeping too much links to previous tasks and first displayed the first loaded QCAD image, even if I closed it long before. I closed it again.
Later, after my search for the QCAD version, the last active task appeared back in the taskbar and when I selected it, my project was there with its last content.
Still, what I don't understand (and for sure there will be many things I shall never understand, be it in IT or in real life like women - generally )) - children smiles or building balance - Pisa tower - or a stair calculation)... is why the file was still displayed in its folder as saved at 18:14.
Happily, everything is ok !
But I hope I'm not too late, Andrew, to wish you (again ?) the best for 2010 and as it's never too early to begin with the good things, I wish you the best until the end of 2010 "bonne fin d'année" !
... including hoping for some way to copy one complete layer - at the layer level - globally from one project (file) to another one.
Michel
Could be screensaver's fault, yes ?
I better believe that somehow the windows taskbar was keeping too much links to previous tasks and first displayed the first loaded QCAD image, even if I closed it long before. I closed it again.
Later, after my search for the QCAD version, the last active task appeared back in the taskbar and when I selected it, my project was there with its last content.
Still, what I don't understand (and for sure there will be many things I shall never understand, be it in IT or in real life like women - generally )) - children smiles or building balance - Pisa tower - or a stair calculation)... is why the file was still displayed in its folder as saved at 18:14.
Happily, everything is ok !
But I hope I'm not too late, Andrew, to wish you (again ?) the best for 2010 and as it's never too early to begin with the good things, I wish you the best until the end of 2010 "bonne fin d'année" !
... including hoping for some way to copy one complete layer - at the layer level - globally from one project (file) to another one.
Michel
I had something like this happen. I did a drawing, printed an image to a file, which I still have. I saved the drawing and quit. When I returned to the drawing, *most* of my changes were gone. Qcad lost *hours* of my work. Unless someone can help me understand what happened, I definitely though with qcad.