On 6/23/20 6:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm using Scribus v1.5.5 on a Debian/Testing machine. > > I thought I had a successful day working on a document but then I went back > into it and found it had reverted to yesterday's last save. I had saved it > umpteen times during the day because the Story Editor keeps throwing an error > that crashes Scribus. I don't think it happened today, which was good, but > I've been leaving the Story Editor after making a few edits, saving the file > then going back into the Story Editor to do some work. > > I've even restarted Scribus a couple of times today, just to be safe, before > I'd work on a new section of the file. > > As I was paging down through the file, more carefully than I usually do to > verify the content and look was correct, I noticed things I'd changed had > reverted. The file date was also from the previous evening. > > There were also some "emergency save" files from yesterday - possibly from > the Story Editor errors, but they were time stamped even earlier than my file. > > It goes without saying that a basic operation like File | Save should work or > at least produce a popup message if it fails. After all the crashes > yesterday, I'd even looked for an "Autosave" file every so many minutes > function, but there doesn't seem to be one. > > I understand that running a testing version of Debian means that the software > may not always work. However the silent failure to save my file today is as > bad as if the software had erased it. Either way, I'd be back to my overnight > backup version.
Hi Gary, Under Preferences > Document Setup > Saving and Undo, there is an Autosave option (which I thought by default was selected), along with interval and other features. You will find these ending with the suffix .autosave Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
