[Rosegarden-bugs] [ rosegarden-Bugs-1543316 ] Crash on save-and-exit, and erase saved file

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Bugs item #1543316, was opened at 2006-08-20 13:17
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Craig McQueen (cmcqueen1975)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Crash on save-and-exit, and erase saved file

Initial Comment:
I'm using Rosegarden 1.2.3 on FC5 with a Planet CCRMA
kernel: 2.6.16-1.2080.16.rdt.rhfc5.ccrma.

Today I've been working on a MIDI piece. When I'd got
something substantial done, I decided to close
Rosegarden. Rosegarden said "File has changed, do you
want to save?" so I said yes. It crashed. When I
restarted and tried to open the file, it said it was
corrupted. I had a look and the length of the file was 0.

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>Comment By: Craig McQueen (cmcqueen1975)
Date: 2006-08-20 14:24

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I should clarify -- I'd already saved the file previously.
And I'd only made a few further changes. So not only did it
fail to save the latest, it ERASED the work I'd previously
saved. I was very sad...

Rosegarden should really do the save process in such a way
that a crash or power failure at ANY POINT should not cause
everything to be lost. That means don't just overwrite the
previous file, but copy it to a temporary/backup file, THEN
save the new stuff, THEN (optionally) delete the
temporary/backup file.

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