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Backup of Mastodon files
User Story
A user of Mastodon recently reported that his *.mastodon file was corrupted after/during a crash of Fiji/Mastodon that perhaps was related to #295. It is not exactly clear how *.mastodon could get corrupted and currently no reproducible workflow exists that would create such a corrupt file. However, the result for the user is annoying, since if no other backup strategy existed potentially many hours of tracking may be lost.
Potential solution 1
- Save the mastodon project automatically every n minutes
- Default of n could be 5
- n could be set via the preference menu by the user
- The autosave would generate a projectname.backup.mastodon, after the project has been saved at least once as projectname.mastodon
Related to #310