save your edits every x minutes

[sergionaranja]

im having trouble with memory and JOSM gets stalled sometimes. So it will be a very useful enhancement to be able to set it so it saves an "utitled.osm" every x minutes automatically.

[stoecker]

Increase you memory supplied to Java would be a better option. The memory warning or Java docs tell you how.

[sergionaranja]

Replying to stoecker:

Increase you memory supplied to Java would be a better option. The memory warning or Java docs tell you how.

I already have java -Xmx800M -jar ./josm-tested.jar (thats another issue).
Saving your edits every x minutes will be good anyway, will prevent loss of data in any present or future shut-down event.

[xeen]

Overwriting the original files doesn't seem a good idea. The user mightn't want to have it overwritten (i.e. just testing something). Instead, what about automatically saving opened data layers to temp files every x minutes (keep last 5 or so)? If JOSM doesn't shutdown properly, a dialog could be presented on the next start if the user wishes to restore one of the backed up copies.

[sergionaranja]

yes that sounds better, and you can always toggle the feature in preferences.

[anonymous]

Replying to stoecker:

Increase you memory supplied to Java would be a better option. The memory warning or Java docs tell you how.

Won't help if you run out of physical memory, as Java will be killed by OOM-killer or some similar mechanism.
This feature would help also with crashes with causes unrelated to JOSM (blue screen of death, power outage without having UPS, etc ...), as your data are more likely to be saved...

[fatbozz]

Yes its very good idea. Especially if youre still using latest dev version :D
When something crash after long time work with JOSM im little bit upset.

Please add ability to save X mins, and maybe restore function like WORD when start.