Re: [Rails-devel] autosave files

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

I'd like to be able to disable autosave, and to have it off by default.

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Chris

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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jim Black <ji...@ko...> wrote:
>
> Stefan wrote:
>> I added a simple autosave and game recovery mechanism. ...
>> The current defaults activate autosave and
>> stores a 18xx_autosave.rails file in the current working directory.
>
> Auto-saving files to the current-working directory is problematic for pbem games, where players inevitably open the pbem game from a shared dropbox folder.
>
> When autosave files appear by magic, it reveals all temporary/session-level analysis to other players, in real time (by constantly saving temp-files in the dropbox).
>
> For this reason, I think it's a pretty undesirable feature (unless Rails can become more clever about distinguishing shared/game folders, from personal/config folders, which it doesn't do well imho) ....
>
> regards,
>  - jim
>
>
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