Restore an autosaved file

[Kevin Golding]

Hi all

Where do the autosaved files get saved?

I am running QCAD 3 on Linux. I made sure to turn on autosave, and set it to save every 2 minutes. My machine just crashed, and when I restarted QCAD and re-opened my drawing, it was a version from about 1 hour ago.

How can I get back the autosaved version?

Thanks

[andrew]

Where do the autosaved files get saved?

In the temporary directory configured on your machine. This is most likely /tmp under Linux. If the environment variable $TMPDIR is set, it overrides this default.

QCAD 3 RC2 will allow you to configure the auto save path for QCAD individually.

[Brass Monkey]

As the temporary directory on Windows machines gets wiped on startup, the default setting isn't useful. I've had system crashes lose work because of this. Would a real directory be a more useful default for autosaves? Mine's now set to a proper non-temp directory.

[andrew]

@ Brass Monkey: Thanks for the hint. I'll change the default to another directory for Windows systems.

Task:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/in ... ask_id=424

[Brass Monkey]

No problem, happy to help. @others - this is easy to change by hand:

Edit > Application preferences > Load/Save > Auto Save, and change to a non-temporary directory.
Watch this directory carefully as you may find it filling up after a bit, and prune carefully if it starts to bloat.

[clive]

Thanks for the tip!