automatic backup of open maps

[daveiro]

Me and, it seems, several other people, sometimes get random crashes while working in maps and can lose minutes or hours of work. The ones I've had are difficult to reproduce. I read problems with valac might cause crashes like these. In any case, I would suggest a feature/enhancement is added to Minder (which exists and has saved me a few times in FreeMind): the option to automatically create backup of open files every x (to be defined in some general config option) minutes. The backup file name could be something like originalname_202101131948 (YYYYMMDDHHMM) for example. And it could keep the backup files for y (to be defined in some general config option) days or indefinitely.

[daveiro]

PS: I just noticed this feature is offered in the latest master version, which is great and has just saved me now in a strange "tree lost" case which I'll try to reproduce and file a bug... but I would suggest these backups are not stored on the same folder as the original file but in an "internal folder" like (in case of linux): .local/share/minder/backup

[daveiro]

PS2: I now noticed that this is not "automatic regular backup" but some backup that seems to have been generated because minder notified me a certain file was changed and requested me to either reload or overwrite, which is strange as I only had one instance of the file open... reloading did not work at first so then I selected overwrite (or the other way around, don't remember well now) and I suppose this generated the backups; so my request for "regular automatic backups" is still on, thanks!