Saving and recovery

Rigby2D is built so that a crash, a power cut or a closed window never costs more than a few minutes of work.

#Safe saves

On the desktop, Save writes the new file next to the old one first (walk.rigby.saving) and then swaps it in, in one step. If anything goes wrong while saving, such as a full disk or a crash, the file you had stays complete.

#Backups: walk.rigby1

Each save keeps the previous version next to the file, as Blender does with .blend1:

Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Files and recovery ▸ Backup versions sets how many are kept (1 by default, up to 9, 0 for none). To go back to a backup, open it with File ▸ Open (choose the Rigby2D backup file type). A backup opens as a copy: Save asks where to keep it, so the backup itself is never overwritten.

Backups are made by the desktop app. In the browser, files are downloaded or written to a folder you pick, without backups.

#Auto-save

While you have unsaved changes, the editor keeps a copy of your work every 2 minutes (change it in Preferences) in its recovery folder. The copy is deleted as soon as you save, so it never clutters your projects.

#After a crash

If the editor crashes, is killed or the computer goes down, the next start offers the work back:

• Recover opens the auto-saved work as an unsaved project, tied to its original file: Save writes it there (and keeps the old version as .rigby1).
• Later keeps it for File ▸ Recover.
• Discard deletes it.

Several editors can run at the same time (several browser tabs, for example); only work from an editor that is really gone is offered.

#Closing with unsaved changes

Closing the desktop app (or File ▸ Quit) with unsaved changes asks Save, Don't save or Cancel. Work you chose not to save is still kept until the next time you quit: File ▸ Recover ▸ Last session brings it back.

In the browser, the page asks before it closes. If it closes anyway, its last auto-save is offered back the next time you open the editor.

#When something goes wrong

When the editor runs into an unexpected error, it auto-saves your work at once and shows a red banner. Report… (also Help ▸ Report a crash…) shows a report of the recent errors, with the version and platform and your folder names hidden. You can copy it or post it as a GitHub issue. Nothing is sent unless you choose to. View ▸ Log has the full details.

#The recovery folder

• Desktop: the recovery folder in the app's data. On Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\io.github.jaisurya-dev-art.rigby2d\recovery. On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/io.github.jaisurya-dev-art.rigby2d/recovery. On Linux: ~/.local/share/io.github.jaisurya-dev-art.rigby2d/recovery.
• Browser: the site's storage for this browser (IndexedDB). Clearing the site data deletes it.

It holds the auto-saves (autosave-<session>.rigby), the last session (quit.rigby) and the crash reports (crash-<time>.txt). These are ordinary .rigby files and text files.