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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a good idea to automate these steps indeed? But, do you warn the
user about this? Maybe there should be some kind of dialog to inform
the user. Something like: "Ooops, something wrong happened", "Do you
want to restore this file (last modification is xx time old)?",
"Restore", "Use new file", "Quit GTG".

Bertrand

2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I've pushed an interesting commit to the trunk. It recovers your XML file
> from backup by default. An example:
>
>  * For some unspecified reason, your 'projects.xml' fails to load. E.g. you
> play with a bad written test which modifies your 'projects.xml'. However,
> you don't encounter it immediately, because the file is loaded only on
> bootup.
>  * The next morning you launch GTG but it doesn't start.
>  * You open a terminal to manually launch GTG.
>  * There is an error about XML.
>  * You google that error and if you get lucky you look for backups (if you
> know where GTG stores data)
>  * You try to play with backups and find the latest usable one.
>
> As you can see, those are so many steps to solve a problem. Imagine a
> corporate worker how she turns on her computer but GTG won't start and she
> don't know what to do. Calling tech support and spend another hour by
> solving that. Instead of that, GTG takes care of those steps automagically.
> Restoring backups would mean to lose few steps what is better than spending
> few hours and losing them anyway.
>
> If you have any objections, feel free to raise them :-)
>
> Izidor
>
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Bertrand Rousseau