file "persistent.state" autosaving

[onceme]

Well, I don't know if it is appropriate to post it here, firstly thanks for your excellent work to offer us such a nice tool, and I have something to say about the "persistent.state" file under "$HOME/.config/deluge".

This morning my machine crashed, deluge got a abnormal exit, after my reboot, I couldn't run deluge again, every time I launched it, it just exited automatically. I found the "persistent.state" file is null, so I lost my three different torrent files each about 25GB.

I restored it of course:
1.reinstall deluge to get a non null "persistent.state".
2.added another three torrents
3.exit deluge
4.open "persistent.state", change the torrent-path and save-path to my original three 25GB torrents
5.launch deluge again, every thing is fine...

So if the deluge do auto save "persistent.state" every couple of minutes during it's runtime, our developers should add a policy such as a .bak file in case of the crashing, if it's not, we do need this backup mechanism, could we add a litter twist in the "preferences", so we can let deluge auto save it's status in X minutes?

And I have another trivial problem, It's about the GUI, "Edit"--"Preference"--"Network", this "notebook control"(I don't know how to call it) can not display itself fully, it seems the default width or minimum width is too short, we should enlarge it a bit more.

Oh, almost forget, what I'm talking about is:
deluge 0.5.2 from http://www.getdeb.net
Feisty Fawn

[markybob]

:So if the deluge do auto save "persistent.state" every couple of minutes during it's runtime, our developers should add a policy such as a .bak file in case of the crashing, if it's not, we do need this backup mechanism, could we add a litter twist in the "preferences", so we can let deluge auto save it's status in X minutes?

true, we could do better in this aspect. we are working on it and hopefully it wont be a problem for too much longer.

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And I have another trivial problem, It's about the GUI, "Edit"--"Preference"--"Network", this "notebook control"(I don't know how to call it) can not display itself fully, it seems the default width or minimum width is too short, we should enlarge it a bit more.

this has everything to do with your desktop theme and your theme's font types/sizes. obviously we cant support every theme and size, but we think we have a pretty sensible default.
thanks

[onceme]

sorry, indeed, the GUI thing is about my font, thanks though