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0000274OpenMPTFeature Requestpublic2013-02-17 13:50
Reporterharbinger Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Platformx86OSWindowsOS VersionXP
Product VersionOpenMPT 1.20.02.00 (upgrade first) 
Summary0000274: Controlled Autosave Deleter
Description

I was surprised to find out recently that my AutoSave folder was holding over 600 MB of backups (!), the vast majority of which were projects that were long-completed and produced. If i sit down to try to figure out what needs to be saved and what should be thrown away i could be here for hours. What would be nifty is an AutoSave Manager, which would help to do this sorting.

What i envision is something akin to the Plugin Manager, but listing instead all the Autosaves in directory style. (I've included a mockup in this report.) Each AutoSave Group is the set of backups of a single track that was being edited (the count of which is determined by the backup number in the AutoSave Options page). Using a contextual menu, you can delete a single autosave, all the autosaves for one track, or ALL autosaves. If you need to check the track first, you can choose to open it directly from this dialog. You can also use Windows' Open File dialog to delete only the files you want.
You can also sort the layout of the listing by the most recent groups, the oldest, or alphabetically.

One day i would also like to see another important feature added: a Differences Display, which would show the differences between each autosave from oldest to newest, so opening the files wouldn't be necessary to check for important changes. But i imagine that functionality would be hard to construct, so i'll save that until after this FR is considered and hopefully implemented.

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Saga Musix

Saga Musix

2012-07-20 15:07

administrator   ~0000810

I just go to the autosave folder every or month or so and delete all backups there that are older than a couple of weeks. After all, this feature is meant to rescue your song if you have realised that you accidentally did something with your module some minutes ago that you would like to undo, and not be some kind of system to manage "revisions" or "working steps" of your song ("If i sit down to try to figure out what needs to be saved and what should be thrown away i could be here for hours." kind of sounds like that is something you are using Autosave for) - in that case I'd suggest to create manual copies of your files every now and then.

Saga Musix

Saga Musix

2013-02-17 13:50

administrator   ~0001108

Won't be implemented for the reasons described in my comment.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2012-07-20 13:37 harbinger New Issue
2012-07-20 13:37 harbinger File Added: AutoSaveMockup.png
2012-07-20 15:07 Saga Musix Note Added: 0000810
2013-02-17 13:50 Saga Musix Note Added: 0001108
2013-02-17 13:50 Saga Musix Status new => closed
2013-02-17 13:50 Saga Musix Resolution open => won't fix