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Bug 1042

Summary: IDE should automatically save settings during execution, not just at exit.
Product: platform Reporter: Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component: -- Other --Assignee: Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status: CLOSED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description Jesse Glick 1999-01-20 21:00:29 UTC 
IMHO the IDE should save your current settings (such as Control Panel settings, especially) when:

- File/Save All is selected

- perhaps automatically at certain intervals when the IDE is otherwise inactive: i.e. set a timer for five minutes to save settings, canceled by any activity

Otherwise, every time the IDE crashes (which can be pretty often in some versions/platforms), everything not stored in a FileObject is lost, which can be a real pain. People definitely expect File | S
ave All to snapshot their whole IDE. Maybe "File | Save Settings"?

[now Save Project Settings available in Pro, which is a good start; should also be available in Entry though for this purpose]

[Ian says--should not crash to begin with]
Comment 1 Quality Engineering 2003-07-02 14:53:31 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verify.
Comment 2 Quality Engineering 2003-07-02 15:12:43 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.