I'm talking to someone on IRC right now who lost two hours of routing because pcbnew crashed, then deleted his autosave file before he could make use of it. We need to put some new efforts into:
1. Never delete autosave data. He may have accidentally saved the board before loading the autosave, I'm not sure - pcbnew deletes autosave when saving - but there should be some proper protection against this. 2. Never overwrite potentially useful autosave data - if pcbnew is reloaded, a previous autosave shouldn't be deleted either. It should only be valid to delete autosave data if the board has not been modified since the autosave was made. 3. Better recovery UI when loading after a crash. It may be necessary to record in the autosave file which run of pcbnew it was created in (timestamp at startup?) to distinguish between old autosave data from a previous run (possible recovery source) and data from the current run (may be overwritten). I haven't completely thought this through yet, just starting a thread for discussion. This is definitely a problem we need to do something about. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
