Re: Gnumeric file went south.

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

Rather than a prefix why don't you use a postfix along the lines of 
myfile.gnumeric~
This would have its benefits: It sorts together with the real file and 
its icon will be different, ie. people are unlikely to popen left over 
files and work with them to get multiple ...fixes.

Andreas

Jon K Hellan wrote:

> Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2001-06-13 at 23:10:27, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> >
> > > All my grades were in a gnumeric file, which file, partly due to
> > > Gnumeric not having (AFAICT) a way to configure for backups at
> > > periodic intervals, was lost when my disk filled up.  
> >
> > This reminds me some idea. Currently all file savers in Gnumeric 
> > just overwrite the file while saving. If we can't save for some reason (lost
> > connection to file server, Gnumeric/OS crash, etc.), we loose the data (the
> > old file is overwritten and the new one is unusable). How about saving the
> > file to <tmp_prefix>-<file_name> and then (if everything is ok) renaming it?
> > I volunteer to implement this for most savers.
>
>
> Good idea. I take it that tmp_prefix doesn't mean /tmp. For renaming
> to protect against a full disk, the temp file has to be in the same file
> system.
>
> What about the case where user has write access to the file, but not
> the directory it is in?

>

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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow                    
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Concordia University College of Alberta
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