[Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread G. Garibaldi
The behavior of the project temp file has changed with 2.4. The archive bit is being set. Could you please turn the archive bit off? ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread G. Garibaldi
For some reason a project temp file or a backup file using the extension .qgs~ is showing up in my projects directory with QGIS 2.4 Win 7 64 bit. The xcopy *.qgs command I use for archival purposes is catching the .qgs~ file as well. This behavior is different from every QGIS version up to at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi G, On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 12:20:56 -0500, G. Garibaldi wrote: For some reason a project temp file or a backup file using the extension .qgs~ is showing up in my projects directory with QGIS 2.4 Win 7 64 bit. It's not a temp file. It's backup of version of the project file (or better

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread G. Garibaldi
Every day I increment the Julian date on the project file I work on. So MyIncredibleProject.qgs file becomes, for example today's Julian calendar date, 203MyIncredibleProject.qgs. Tomorrow the first thing I do will be to increment the file to 204MyIncredibleProject.qgs and so on. Each day I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
If this was me I would store you project file in a git repo and just commit every day, or after every change, and backup the git repo. I have done this in the past and it has served me well. Just adding dates to the end of a file is a very old school way of doing backups. In any case I don't

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread G. Garibaldi
On 7/23/2014 4:52 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: If this was me I would store you project file in a git repo and just commit every day, or after every change, and backup the git repo. I have done this in the past and it has served me well. Just adding dates to the end of a file is a very old

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Jürgen On 23.07.2014 21:23, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: Hi G, On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 12:20:56 -0500, G. Garibaldi wrote: For some reason a project temp file or a backup file using the extension .qgs~ is showing up in my projects directory with QGIS 2.4 Win 7 64 bit. It's not a temp

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On 23/07/2014 23:56, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Hi Jürgen On 23.07.2014 21:23, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: Hi G, On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 12:20:56 -0500, G. Garibaldi wrote: For some reason a project temp file or a backup file using the extension

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Tim, On Don 24 Jul 2014 00:03:10 CEST, Tim Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On 23/07/2014 23:56, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Hi Jürgen On 23.07.2014 21:23, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: Hi G, On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 12:20:56 -0500, G. Garibaldi wrote: For some

Re: [Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

2014-07-23 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Matthias, On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 23:56:43 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: What is the purpose of this file? Having a backup when the project file got silently corrupted or truncated and can't be loaded again. Which does/used to happen sometimes for unknown reasons. When is it produced