Bug 144857

Summary:	Option for automatic project archival upon closing kile
Product:	[Applications] kile	Reporter:	Dustin Vaselaar <dustin.vaselaar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	trunk-kde4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Dustin Vaselaar 2007-04-30 06:59:05 UTC

Version:           1.9.3 (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-15-generic

Hello,
I would like to suggest that an option be included in the project settings such that a project can be automatically archived upon closing Kile.  The various archived files could be differentiated by the inclusion of the date/time into the filename.  Advanced features could include the ability to automatically delete archives that are older than a certain date and the ability to only save archives on a daily basis (overcoming the issue of open and closing the program multiple times in one day and creating a large number of archives).

The reason I suggest this option is my own stupidity has caused me to lose a couple days worth of writing and an automatic archival tool would have helped recover the work.

Dustin Vaselaar

Comment 1 Thomas Braun 2007-05-07 23:02:24 UTC

Hello,

you know that from all opened files, backup files with extension ~ ( and depending on your setup also with extension .backup) are created?
But actually I like the idea of archive creation on project closing.

Comment 2 Dustin Vaselaar 2007-05-08 02:19:59 UTC

Hi Thomas, 
Thanks for the suggestion on the backup files with the ~ extension, I didn't think of that at the time of my trouble.  Oh well, I've basically rewritten all the lost work and its probably better than the first time anyway.

Dustin