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> On Unix, if you open a file, and then rename (or delete) the file, 
> it will remain linked to the file you originally opened.

Are you sure that you can delete a file during you are working on it in
an other program? This does definitely not work on windows, as I wrote
already.

It seems you are mixing 2 issues/features: One is auto save to prevent
data loss when hugin crashes. The second one is to provide a history or
backup function.

The patch implements an autosave, because only the last project is
saved. (Even if you are working on different projects in one session,
only the last one is finally kept on disc. The older autosaves are
overwritten.) But it needs more fixing, currently the patch does not
work with 2 instances. Also the time intervall is too short. It saves
every 10 seconds, which create too much disc activity for me. This is
too short and can not changed by the user (or even deactivated).

Your proposed name schemes in the comments are more dealing with
history/backup.

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Title:
  Backup copy of project.

Status in Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hugin just crashed on me. Pre 0.7.0 this happened so often that I knew I had to save often, or risk losing my work. 

So far this is the first since I went to 0.7.0. Now 0.8.0 crashed on me.... However I'm most pissed that a pto file got saved to run "nona", but this gets (I think) cleaned up after running nona. So now I'm left with a project file with hours of work missing. 

PLEASE write a backup pto file where I can find it, or mention "this project had unsaved changes when hugin crashed, load the backup file?" when I start it. (then I don't need to know where the backup is stored...).