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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Bad Hair Day on June 29, 2019, 02:13:45 PM
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Hi,
I was going back and trying to get to a point where I first made my mistake so I didn't have to do all that editing of hundreds of objects one object at a time.
Of course, that's the point where my laptop gets unplugged without me knowing the very weak battery allows the computer to turn off seconds after I get the 10% battery warning.
Sigh.
I reopen the SVG file, and it's at a point much earlier than anticipated. I looked under "File" "Save" "Save As" and "Preferences" and I didn't see any auto save feature.
Is there a folder where I can look for autosaved SVG files?
Is there an autosave feature I can turn on?
Thanks,
BHD having a bad hair day.
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It's under the Edit tab, then Preferences>AutoSave. I put mine on 7 minutes, with 75 autosaves, but if I were doing the huge hex file that you have, would autosave every 3 - 4 minutes. You can change it back when your file size isn't so big.
However, since my laptop is about 9 yrs old, win 7 and on death's door, I automatically hit the save button every 2 - 3 minutes, have learned my lessons. I also keep a copy of the entire file myself, and every 15 minutes or so I do a save as. (I tend to do stupid stuff and delete the wrong object, yada yada, then decide I liked the older one better).
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On Windows, I think the default autosave, which happens whether....well I should if you don't have autosave turned on, puts the file in the user directory. C/Users/username. I don't know if it still puts them there after you turn on the autosave feature. But there is some kind of default autosave that sometimes happens in a crash.
If you turn on the Autosave feature, you can choose which folder you want them saved in. And I don't know if that changes where the default autosave puts files.
Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > AutoSave
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I had not turned on Autosave. :/
I found this file: inkscape.exe.1516.dmp
In this folder: C: Users\owner\appdata\local\crashdumps
I tried opening it from Inkscape 0.93, it wouldn't even see the file. I double clicked on the file, Windows said "what program?" I said "Inkscape" and it didn't work.
It's only a couple hours of work, and as I am still learning stuff every step of the way, I'm not all that angry about my mistake(s).
I did turn on autosave and put it at 100 copies into a folder I can find.
BHD
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Hhmm, no that would not be the auto-saved file. I don't know exactly what that is.
If there was not a crash -- I mean Inkscape crash, it wouldn't have saved the file. If it was just your computer shutting down, the new contents are probably lost. Sorry.
But at least you have autosave set up now!
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The crash dump file is a file that tells developers why Inkscape crashed. It is created when it crashes, on the alpha version that you are using. You can open it with a text editor, but not with Inkscape.
If you still have it, and there was an unexplained crash, you could possibly help fix the crash by sharing the file in a new issue at https://inkscape.org/report .