Re: [Gimp-user] xcf file corrupt?

[Maarten De Munck <mdemunck gmail com>]

Jernej Simončič schreef op ma 17-09-2012 om 20:53 [+0200]:
> This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being
> written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk.
> Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS
> independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in
> reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.

It would be nice if Gimp (as e.g. Cinepaint does) saves the file to
filename.tmp and moves that file to filename if finished correctly. That
way, an error during the save process doesn't corrupt the original file.