RE: [Bug-gnubg] Autosave questions

[Michael Depreli]

Another additional feature with regards to autosave:

It's possible for software to recognize when the last use terminated unexpectedly so would it be possible
that gnubg upon restart prompts the user with a message asking whether they would like to open the autosaved copy?

Michael.



> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:23:28 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Autosave questions
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
>
>
> That¹s not a bad idea, however that can¹t be used in all cases. One such
> case is If you have started a match (or set up a position) without saving it
> previously (thus no name). I also have a feeling this is just the first cut
> at getting autosave implemented. Christian put a comment in the Changelog
> that the feature needs testing, so I think any comments on improving it are
> more than welcome at this point - thanks!
>
> On 02/10/09 12:09 PM, "address@hidden"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > OK I found it and it appears to work.
> >
> > I would think the most user-friendly option would be to simply save the
> > autosave file in the same directory as the original
> > and simply append the filename autosaved?
> >
> > So.. matchxyz.sgf simply becomes matchxyzautosaved.sgf unless there is a
> > specific reason why they need to have unusual temporary names and be in a
> > separate directory?
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:57:46 -0600
> >> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Autosave questions
> >> From: address@hidden
> >> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> >>
> >> I haven¹t followed up with Christian about how things are suppose to work,
> >> but from my testing the Autosave data gets stored in your home directory
> >> under /.gnubg/backup (similar place to where you find the gnuvgautorc file).
> >> There you will find SGF files for matches that are autosaved. They may have
> >> unusual temporary names but you should be able to find the data you are
> >> looking for. The question for Anthon is ­ how is autosave suppose to work
> >> from the user perspective. Is looking in the backups directory the intent.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/10/09 10:47 AM, "address@hidden"
> >> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>> Just to check...
> >>> If I set the autosave to 1 minute and start a rollout that takes longer than
> >>> that, each minute the rollout data gets saved to the file
> >>> so if gnubg crashes, when I reopen the file the data should be saved at the
> >>> last autosave and I can continue?
> >>>
> >>> I tried doing rollouts both individually and via CMark for about 5 minutes
> >>> (setting autosave to 1 minute) , crashed gnubg and reopened
> >>> but the data wasn't saved.
> >>>
> >>> Unless I'm doing something wrong or misunderstand the autosave feature.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>>
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