[Jabref-users] cumulative auto backups

[Haines B. <ha...@hi...>]

I raised this question some time ago but received no responses.

I'm running JabRef 3.3 (stuck there because of the oft-discussed groups
problem) and have seven databases. When I explicitly back a database up
(C-s), the database is saved as /tmp/jabref*.tmp. When I backup again,
the old file is overwritten by the new one.

However, exactly every five minutes three of my seven databases are
automatically backed up to a file named /tmp/jabref*.save.bib. This
occurs even though no operations are being done with JabRef. Because
there is no automatic deletion of these files each time there is a new
save, they accumulate to the point it fills my 20 Gb /tmp directory.

It seems the three databases must be configured differently, but I see
no difference. In the Preferences for seven I have checked Backup old
file while saving. I could write a script to delete these .save.bib
files automatically, but I'd rather address the source of the problem.
There is nothing in /var/log/cron.log associated with this issue.

Haines Brown