Bug 68655

Summary: save a backup copy of the file
Product: [Applications] umbrello Reporter: Jaime Torres <jtamate>
Component: generalAssignee: Umbrello Development Group <umbrello-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jaime Torres 2003-11-20 14:35:30 UTC 
Version:           1.2-beta (using KDE 3.1.93 (3.2 beta 1), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.0-test9

Everybody hopes that their favorite application does not crash and can work forever.

I've had bad luck and umbrello has erased a diagram file after crashing with an assigned bug. Now I have to redraw again all the job.

My wish is to have a backup file when saving, if not automátically created, with a check that enables this feature.

Thanks for Umbrello.
Comment 1 Jonathan Riddell 2003-11-27 00:26:29 UTC 
Autosave can be turned on in the configure dialogue and saves a file to ~/autosave.xmi every 5 minutes.
Comment 2 Sean Clarke 2004-01-06 12:46:57 UTC 
I just had the same problem, I had autosave enabled and cannot find any autosave file.

Can we reopen this or file a new bug with autosave?

I am using KDE 3.2 beta 2.
SuSE RPMs,
SuSE 8.2
Comment 3 Sebastian Stein 2004-01-06 13:25:42 UTC 
Subject: Re: [Uml-devel]  save a backup copy of the file

Sean Clarke <sean.e.clarke@ntlworld.com> [040106 13:15]:
> I just had the same problem, I had autosave enabled and cannot find any autosave file.
> 
> Can we reopen this or file a new bug with autosave?

I think we are talking about 2 different things. You want autosave to save
to another backup file. At the moment, autosave just saves to the current
file. I think this is normal behaviour. So a backup save would be something
else. If you really need this, open a new wishlist entry in the bug
database.

Steinchen
Comment 4 Jonathan Riddell 2004-01-07 00:40:28 UTC 
As I said above autosave saves to ~/autosave.xmi

This is not entirely obvious, it would probably be better saving to myfile-autosave.xmi
Comment 5 SasQ 2007-01-30 03:10:50 UTC 
This may be solved same as in KWrite/Kate: by creating a backup copy of a .xmi file in the same directory, but with .bak extension or "~" added.