[scribus] [1.4.0] autosave file exists

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/29/2012 03:24 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> hi boris
>
>> I use scribus-1.4.0 at the system:
>> -----
>> % uname -a
>> FreeBSD bsam.wart.ru 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r230425:
>> Mon Jan 23 11:55:58 SAMT 2012
>> bsam at bsam.wart.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BBX i386
>> -----
>>
>> Scribus leaves autosave files after saving the file and closing the
>> program itself:
>> -----
>> % ls -l
>> total 21432
>> -rw-r--r--  1 bsam  wheel  21845667 27 янв 15:20 test-1.pdf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 bsam  wheel     18965 27 янв 15:19 test-1.sla
>> -rw-r--r--  1 bsam  wheel     17192 27 янв 15:18 test-1.sla.autosave
>> -----
>>
>> Is it a bug/feature/my misconfiguration? Thanks!
>
> this is indeed a small annoyance...
>
> does anybody see a reason why scribus should leave behind a .autosave
> file after the file has been successfully closed?
>
> if nobody sees a use for it, i will add an issue in the bug tracker...
> (the question is about the persistence of the .autosave files *after*
> the file has been closed! the file left there if scribus crashed!)
>

I can easily imagine not wanting to automatically lose .autosave copies. 
One might find after many changes and saves that somehow you'd like to 
resurrect something on a prior version.

It's easy enough to 'rm *.autosave' periodically once they are not needed.

If you don't like .autosave files at all, just turn it off in Preferences.

Greg