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Re: Autosave BS

 

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:09:45AM -0700, Andy Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 23, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm talking to someone on IRC right now who lost two hours of routing
> > because pcbnew crashed, then deleted his autosave file before he could
> > make use of it. 
> 
> What, he couldn’t type Ctrl-S (or Cmd-S on a Mac) every few traces or so? I have zero sympathy for that person.

It has nothing to do with sympathy and everything to do with accepting
responsibility. Just because he could have taken steps to prevent data
loss doesn't mean it wasn't KiCad that lost the data in the first place,
and thus our responsibility to fix.

> 
> There, I said it.
> 
> -a
> 
> 
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