Auto backup save When pressing No on CTRL+Q

[MirMirSky]

I was drawing for an hour and I accidentally pressed on “No” when i pressed CTRL+Q ( When it asked if i wanna save).
I was panicking a little and i thought the backup saved.
But no, the backup did not save too.
Why doesn’t the backup save when pressing No if i wanna save or not when quitting krita?

[Michelist]

@MirMirSky

I was drawing for an hour and I accidentally pressed on “No” when i pressed CTRL+Q ( When it asked if i wanna save).

As sorry as I am and as tragic as it is that you lost an hour of your work, it also seems to be true that you did not inform yourself in advance about the related topics in order to be informed and prepared in case of the situation you faced.

But okay, so you want to know why something isn’t working the way you imagined it would work in your favor, in case what just happened to you happened?

@MirMirSky

Why doesn’t the backup save when pressing No if i wanna save or not when quitting krita?

Here I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the functionality and topics explained in detail in the Krita manual: Saving, Backup, Auto-Backup, Crash Recovery. You can find it here:

Saving, AutoSave and Backup Files

Alternatively, you could use the forum search to find the countless topics on auto backup and, for example, apply the damage minimization options I suggest there. For instance:

Krita deleted 12 hours of work

Hello @Chara_Dreemurr and welcome to the forum! What you can do to create a safety cushion is to activate the setting ‘‘Create a Backup File on Saving’’ in Krita under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘General’’ in the ‘‘File Handling’’ tab, you can leave the options ‘‘Backup File Location’’ and ‘‘Backup File Suffix’’ below this as they are or adjust them to suit your requirements, and then specify the number of backups you want to keep under ‘‘Number of Backup Files Kept’…

Help, my file got corrupted and i've lost 2 days of work

Hello @LiterallyMiguel, and welcome to the forum! Unfortunately, @NotBob is absolutely right. For a very long time, Krita offers tools to help avoid these hard landings of users, in Krita you find them under ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save Incremental Version’’ CTRL + ALT + S and ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save Incremental Backup’’ F4, so a simple shortcut used a few times an hour and your pain wouldn’t be as deep as yours is right now, but Krita can’t help if users refuse to make use of them. Or, what …

There is also a plugin that modifies the auto backup function available in Krita, which is exactly explained in the manual (and so often misinterpreted), to work in the way you imagined before the recent incident:

Oughtasave Plugin - An Autosave Replacement

It’s a plugin which replaces Krita’s odd built-in autosave functionality, which for some unexplainable reason will delete your autosaves, with a version that doesn’t do that. It makes a docker that you can use to toggle oughtasave on or off, but it also has a settings tab where you can easily set it to autostart and from then on run in the background. So you only ever really need to look at the docker once to tune the settings as you want, if you don’t want it cluttering up your workspace.

Michelist

[MirMirSky]

Thank you for your response Michelist

I have read the Krita document and Krita is doing what the user did, wether its accidental or not. I saw that the Auto-save saves the file as a temp as well. In my case, it was supposed to be in my home directory as I use Linux. I could not find it there. I looked in /tmp folder but had no luck. It’s probably because i already closed my computer and reopened it today to check if i have luck finding.

I do hope in the future, the Auto save function gets a customization function for its temporary Auto-save files. I do want it in a way that, the Auto-save will stay as last saved as temporary even after not saving, only overwrite it after the next auto save when opening the file that was not saved.

As for the shortcuts, I am aware of it. Though I am still not used to using it so I forget alot of the times. It’s a fault on my side.

[Michelist]

I think Krita’s auto saving is an unluckily chosen name and has cost many users a lot of work, but the devs do not seem to want to change it. Logically they are not wrong, but from a user’s view this should be thought about. I can only offer you help with what Krita has, like I tried doing for others in the linked posts, or you can try using that plugin I named at the end of my former answer.

Michelist