crash recovery

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Please make sure to try out the latest version of Inkscape
before requesting new features as Inkscape is improving all
the time.

It is such a good idea I strongly suspect something similar
to what you describe may arleady exist.

Hello,

Inkscape in Ubuntu 6.06.1 (inkscape 0.43-4ubuntu3) has
crashed on me three times in the last 24 hours. Each time I
have lost some work. This is a big problem for me, since I
am doing creative work and recreation is difficult. Can you
please implement data protection features? It's too bad
that when the program crashes, sorm sort of crash report
isn't generated for me to give you.

Thanks very much for developing Inkscape.

I'm currently using inkscape to draw and animate characters for a video game made with Game-Editor.
Game editor uses its own undo file, filename.ged.undo.tmp. This saves in the folder with the file that's being worked on.
Every time GE crashes, it immediately asks on startup, if you would like to recover from the last session. I've had plenty of crashes, but it recovers perfectly to your last action (provided you've saved the file at least once).

I've been using Corel for 8 years, and I just discovered inkscape a week ago, and I've found it to be the best vector illustration tool i've ever used, and even dumped corel off the start menu and replaced it with inkscape.

However, the crashing is getting to be a bit of a problem, not so much because i don't save, i save often(like i said i used corel for 8 years :P) but sometimes it crashes....when i save!

So far the crashes have not been related to the amount of data onscreen; the last crash was relatively small compared to the file i made previously, and on that large file (2hours) i had no crashes whatsoever.

quoting from newly linked debbug 488622 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488622>
«…At least ask upstream to add an autosave feature.»

This feature already exists in Inkscape 0.47.

Changing debian link... previous Debian report was closed as 0.47 added autosave.

@MenTaLguY - are you still actively working on this?

I have used Inkscape for quite a time now and I found that the best environment to work with inkscape is a linux distro.
Using windows won't improve the situation. I use both system on the same machine and my advice, if you want to work uninterrupted is to use Ubuntu if you're very tied up to windows. I work with the latest version for both systems, and this is no WINE, I have a partition with Ubuntu 10.4 and Windows XP ver 2002 sp2. Inkscape will fail much more often than the Ubuntu box.

A note from bug #1280880: there is probably a good case to be made for adding a "safe mode", so that images that trigger a rendering crash can be recovered safely.