Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL testing

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 19:28 +0200, michalwd1979 wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm playing around with 3d version of pcb from git, and today I've
> lost about 3 hours of my work because of a strange crash. I've clicked
> in drc window and pcb exited leaving only a few "failed to create
> pixmap" lines in terminal. No segfault no any other info. I couldn't
> reproduce this, so I'm not sure what really happened.
> 
> The other problem was that pcb did not leave any backup files. I've
> doubly checked it and it seems that pcb does not write any backup
> files for me (I've set autobackup to 300s). How the backups should be
> written? I understand that every 300s is this true? Oh, I almost
> forgot: I've changed #define BACKUP_NAME in globalconst.h from
> "PCB.%.i8.backup" to "/tmp/PCB.%.i8.backup", but this should make any
> difference (I think).

If the board has a file-name, then its back is called "filename.pcb-"

The PCB.%i.backup stuff is only used for a board which hasn't been saved
yet. See src/file.c, around line 1046 in the "Backup (void)" function.


Regards,

Peter C.



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