[Ghork]

Hello, I read the posting guidelines but I didn't quite understand whether this will fit under this section of the forum. (If not, please redirect me)

Ok, so I was working on an animation in gimp (took me several hours spread over a couple of days). And every time I would stop animating for that moment I would just close the laptop. The thing is, yesterday my computer froze. I couldn't do anything but to force the power off.
This is the first time my laptop crashes and I always save my work. However this appears to not have been the case this time. I read there's no auto-save function, so is all my work lost now? I hate doing animations and to get it that well made again...

Also, I think the crash might have been because of gimp. How high is the probability of that would you say?

Thanks.

[ofnuts]

Ghork, on 05 April 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Hello, I read the posting guidelines but I didn't quite understand whether this will fit under this section of the forum. (If not, please redirect me)

Yes, right place

Ghork, on 05 April 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Ok, so I was working on an animation in gimp (took me several hours spread over a couple of days). And every time I would stop animating for that moment I would just close the laptop. The thing is, yesterday my computer froze. I couldn't do anything but to force the power off.
This is the first time my laptop crashes and I always save my work. However this appears to not have been the case this time. I read there's no auto-save function, so is all my work lost now? I hate doing animations and to get it that well made again...

I'm afraid that all is lost... even with an autosave function, it is still useful to save from time to time to new version, because the autosave will also save your blunders.

Ghork, on 05 April 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Also, I think the crash might have been because of gimp. How high is the probability of that would you say?

Very low IMH0. Of course if you work on a very big image (or with any layers) and get an ever increasing undo stack (though I think there is a limit for this in Gimp) then you end up using a lot of memory, and some applications start misbehaving when memory-constrained.

[Ghork]

Okay, thanks! I'd doubt the crash would be directly associated with my hardware though (such as not having enough free RAM).
So I have no idea what caused it...