I just spent a while editing a file, saving frequently, but just before exporting it to a PNG to send to my client, I changed all the colours I use for keeping track and cutting to black so the client wouldn't be confused.
Having just discovered the revert feature, and used it a few times this past week with no noticed ill effects, I hit revert rather than undoing several things until it was back where I wanted it.
When I reopened the file, I saw immediately that the last rendition was not my immediately-prior-to-cutting file, but the just-saved-prior-to-last-crashed-and-reopened file. I expected, and thought from less critical uses, that revert would be to the last saved version, rather than beginning of the current session as it is now painfully evident.
Searching on line and on the fora for "revert" yielded only information on reverting to a previous edition of inkscape - what I would term a "rollback." Finally, I found, when looking at the tavmjong manual for old inkscape that revert means: "Revert a file to remove all changes made in the current Inkscape session."
Now, in the future, I will save a separate file to commemorate whatever I send to someone else, and use undo or file history to go back in such a case. But I wonder if revert could be split into session and last saved options. As a side note, history might be more useful if it were possible to see more info other than delete, move, etc. For instance: delete (toggle for more?) layer 1, gxxxx, path xxxxx. It was looking at the nonspecific history items that gave me the impulse to just revert.
There are questions in here: is it possible to find a revised and reverted file or revert to a saved point? Can this latter be a feature request? but I am posting mostly for others to find the term if they search for it. Meanwhile, I will save and close at critical points as I go, if I feel the need to try utilize the feature.
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Hello,
I just spent a while editing a file, saving frequently, but just before exporting it to a PNG to send to my client, I changed all the colours I use for keeping track and cutting to black so the client wouldn't be confused.
Having just discovered the revert feature, and used it a few times this past week with no noticed ill effects, I hit revert rather than undoing several things until it was back where I wanted it.
When I reopened the file, I saw immediately that the last rendition was not my immediately-prior-to-cutting file, but the just-saved-prior-to-last-crashed-and-reopened file. I expected, and thought from less critical uses, that revert would be to the last saved version, rather than beginning of the current session as it is now painfully evident.
Searching on line and on the fora for "revert" yielded only information on reverting to a previous edition of inkscape - what I would term a "rollback." Finally, I found, when looking at the tavmjong manual for old inkscape that revert means: "Revert a file to remove all changes made in the current Inkscape session."
Now, in the future, I will save a separate file to commemorate whatever I send to someone else, and use undo or file history to go back in such a case. But I wonder if revert could be split into session and last saved options. As a side note, history might be more useful if it were possible to see more info other than delete, move, etc. For instance: delete (toggle for more?) layer 1, gxxxx, path xxxxx. It was looking at the nonspecific history items that gave me the impulse to just revert.
There are questions in here: is it possible to find a revised and reverted file or revert to a saved point? Can this latter be a feature request? but I am posting mostly for others to find the term if they search for it. Meanwhile, I will save and close at critical points as I go, if I feel the need to try utilize the feature.
Thanks
If you go to Edit -> Preferences, then open Input/Output -> Autosave you should see a path to a directory there.
Chances are that you can find good version of your file in that directory.