Hello all,

I was unable to find an answer to my question in the forum search or through google. I recently had to reset my computer and when it rebooted the kdenlive session had not saved my work (i had not actually saved the timeline to a file at all yet).

Is there an autosave/crash recovery feature built-in to kdenlive? I see one in the settings menu, but it is not configurable and also does not tell me where these recovery files are being saved. I read somewhere on a page that it might be in the /tmp folder? But that is cleared on boot, so not the best spot and I can't find anything in there. Furthermore, when I am editing a project for a long time I see no autosave increment files, but maybe it is autosaving the timeline directly to file?

Any assistance would be most appreciated,
thanks!
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The autosave feature uses a KDE function that is not very powerful, It might be nice to work on something more suitable to a video editor, making incremental versions, etc

Currently, the autosave files are located in $HOME/.kde/data/stalefiles/kdenlive/

The autosave only works if you already saved your project file once. If you try to open a project file that has an autosaved file, you should be prompted if you want to recover.

regards

ah, I see, thanks for that information. I am using kdenlive on gnome, so I didn't know that it had created that .kde folder. I see those autosave files now.

Yes, I agree that it would be more beneficial to have something like a video editor's version of autosave, like final cut, set timed incremental versions in addition to crash recovery. It seems like it would be a good idea that as soon as you do anything to the vanilla project that, by default, opens up when you start the program it should autosave. I found myself once working for half an hour on a new project w/o saving and then the program crashed and I lost all that importing and trimming work.

many thanks for your help though, much appreciated!