Folks,
This seems to be a contentious topic here and I want to make it clear I use Mercurial and commit all my stuff regularly to it. I am not talking about version control, this issue is about kicad crashing on me.
For the first time evs, kicad crashed on me this morning and I lost a wee chunk of work. So I thought, there’ll be an autosave function; the only file I could see that would help was a bak file, but that was from first thing this morning and of no help.
So, I started Googling and found a few threads on here. Checked my preferences and autosave was set to 0, which I guess means that it was disabled sadly. I have seen suggestions that it is set to ten minutes by default, but that’s not my finding.
So, I set it to 2 - which I assume means two minutes, but it is not creating any autosave- files at all. Is there anything else I need to do or? I’m assuming it would be saved in the same directory as the project files and I can see no hidden files being created let alone normal files.
Also, what does the file history size do? It’s set to nine on mine by default, does that means it would keep nine timestamped files? I’m not bothered about that, Mercurial will allow me to go back to older versions, I just want one file that will give me back a version of the file pre crash. I accept I’d lose two minutes work, but that’s better than half an hour’s work.
Thanks!