Godot: Autosaving scene or scripts

[ghost]

An auto-saving feature every 5-min let's say to save the project maybe?

[bojidar-bg]

:+1: only if it is configurable and defaults to off :wink:

[ivanskodje]

If we could optimize the auto-saving to save on the current scene/script every 5-10 seconds (or when switching scenes), we could possibly save a lot of time on saving. Sometimes saving takes far too long (1-2 seconds), which makes me wonder if it saves everything everywhere. Hmm..

[akien-mga]

If saving takes 1-2 seconds, I don't see how triggering it every 5-10 seconds would be an improvement.

[Calinou]

Optional automatic saving when the window loses focus could be added, similar to JetBrains IDEs or Visual Studio Code with the autosave option enabled.

[burstina]

I am actually up for autosave feature,
I just lost 300 lines of code for PC crash...

[SandbergSan]

I just installed godot since it looked interesting. One of the first thing i check in any new program is if there is an autosave and i'm a bit concerned that this proposal is almost 3 years old without any signs of it being implemented. Hope it will soon so i can choose this engine for any future project, it is too risky without any autosave/backup system.

[Calinou]

@SandbergSan I think it should be relatively easy to add a "save on focus loss" option by listening to NOTIFICATION_WM_FOCUS_OUT in the scene/script editor's _notification() method (in the engine source, that is).

You can also set Text Editor → Files → Autosave Interval Secs to a value greater than zero in the Editor Settings to save scripts automatically every so often, but this will only impact the script editor, not the scene editor.

Also, remember that Godot will save your scenes and scripts every time you run the project (by default), which provides some degree of crash resilience if you test your project often :slightly_smiling_face:

[SandbergSan]

The autosave on the script is just what i was hoping to find. I didn't find it myself because i used the Search function in the Editor Settings which only searches the currently selected category (i thought it searched all categories). So i went out and googled it and found this thread, and i ended up assuming it didn't exist.

That the scene doesnt autosave is more understandable, and afaik many other programs have problems with this too so i dont expect that to work as easily. For example in unreal engine i always have had issues with trying to restore an autosaved/autobackup scene.

Still, if this program actually got scene-autosave/autobackup to work, without any downsides that the people above are describing and that it was default turned off, it wouldn't be bad for anyone, xP

[KoBeWi]

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