Difference between revisions of "Emergency save"

Revision as of 11:49, 16 June 2012

When Inkscape crashes, it tries to save the document as a backup with following name:

 <filename>.<datetime>.#

If the document has not been saved yet, the name is:

 inkscape-emergency.<datetime>.#

Note, that there is no .svg file name ending.

Inkscape tries to save in the following paths:

(in that order).

Inkscape tries to save in %UserProfile%:

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 {{Other languages|en=Emergency save|de=Sicherungskopie}}
-Inkscape may still crash, it's not perfect (although we try hard).
+When Inkscape crashes, it tries to save the document as a backup with following name:
-If it does so, then it will try to save the document you were working on.
+  <filename>.<datetime>.#
-===On Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, ...)===
+If the document has not been saved yet, the name is:
-Inkscape will try to save to
+  inkscape-emergency.<datetime>.#
-# your home directory as <code>filename.<datetime>.#</code>
-# <code>/tmp/filename.<datetime>.#</code>
+Note, that there is no <code>.svg</code> file name ending.
-# the current directory as <code>filename.<datetime>.#</code>
+=== On Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.) ===
+Inkscape tries to save in the following paths:
+# Home directory (<code>~/</code>, <code>$HOME</code>, <code>/home/<username>/</code>)
+# <code>/tmp/</code>
+# In the current working directory
 (in that order).
-If the document does not already have a name, the filename is <code>inkscape-emergency<datetime>.#</code>.
+=== On Windows ===
-Note that the saved file will ''not'' have the <code>.svg</code> extension!
+Inkscape tries to save in <code>%UserProfile%</code>:
-===On Windows===
+* XP/2003: <code>C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\</code>
-Inkscape will try to save to:
+* Vista/7: <code>C:\Users\<username>\</code>
-:<code>C:\Documents and Settings\<yourname>\</code>
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