Re: [Gimp-user] xcf file corrupt?

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Maarten De Munck <mdemunck gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

I agree. This is a must-have feature in any high grade software.
Would be cool to add this feature to Gimp.

Jehan