Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

[Rob Antonishen <rob antonishen gmail com>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez)  wrote:
> On 25/07/12 07:44, wanderer wrote:
>>
>> Well, as an user who read the list it came to my mind the implementation
>> of auto-save in Gimp.
>
> Keep in mind that it could not be as trivial as it sounds. Image files
> processed in GIMP can be really big, and probably the penalty in performance
> and diskspace of having constant backups is too much.


+1 to that! I routinely work on files that are >100MB and backing them
up takes times... I want it to happen when I want it.  Which is why I
wrote a backup script http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 and just tap
Alt+F, B when I want to snapshot a backup.

-Rob A>