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  • is there an autosave?

    From bribelge@bribelge@gmail.com to comp.graphics.apps.gimp on Mon May 11 14:28:47 2020
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    I cant find the setting for autosave. I just lost a lot of work and i would like to have GIMP automatically prevent that from happening again. TIA
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  • From Bruno@btendler@totally.unknown.address to comp.graphics.apps.gimp on Thu Aug 13 05:29:58 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.graphics.apps.gimp

    On 2020-05-11, bribelge@gmail.com <bribelge@gmail.com> wrote:
    I cant find the setting for autosave. I just lost a lot of work and i would like to have GIMP automatically prevent that from happening again. TIA

    It seems it's not the case. Here's a post I just found doing a quick search:

    <https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/f4bhas/does_gimp_have_auto_save/>

    Although there's a way to do it, but with some more programs, as it's explained here:

    <https://www.easeus.com/file-recovery/gimp-file-recovery.html>
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  • From lisa@not.in.use@invalid.xor to comp.graphics.apps.gimp on Thu Aug 13 09:54:41 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.graphics.apps.gimp

    On Mon, 11 May 2020 14:28:47 -0700 (PDT), bribelge@gmail.com wrote:

    I cant find the setting for autosave. I just lost a lot of work and i would like to have GIMP automatically prevent that from happening again. TIA

    it looks like GIMP will never get an autosave.
    I never tested or tried this.
    I prefer an autosave function which saves to a xxx(1).xcf and not
    overwrites the original xxx.xcf

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/354041/how-do-i-recover-unsaved-files-in-gimp --- Synchronet 3.21b-Linux NewsLink 1.2