0002587: Saving fails silently when folder is not writeable (due to full disk, permissions, etc)

Notes
(0009892) smjjames (reporter) 2010-07-10 15:55	Thats your problem right there, just remove some stuff off the harddisk or move the DF directory to a different disk, or move stuff on the harddisk to a flash drive.

(0010810) SeveQ (reporter) 2010-07-22 05:28	Yeah, sure. My full harddisk causes this. But DF shouldn't silently ignore that and destroy the savegame. Other software that isn't able to save its data to the harddisk due to insufficient space throws error messages at you with the opportunity to correct the problem before the next attempt to save. IMHO DF should do likewise. DF could somehow estimate the size of the savegame the moment the user chooses "Save" from the game menu (might be cumbersome). Or save process could be put before the quit event so that the game is only eventually quit on a successful save. It's really a minor thing that won't appear as long as you keep enough free space on your harddisk. But sometimes, yeah, sometimes, unexpectedly... I've lost a very good turn to that.

(0012791) Quietust (reporter) 2010-09-18 09:37 edited on: 2010-09-18 09:38	Considering that Dwarf Fortress, for the very purpose of avoiding savegame corruption if it happens to crash while saving, always saves your game as a copy in the "Current" folder and then, once it has finished, moves it into the appropriate region folder (after deleting the previous contents), I'd say that it should absolutely be handling this situation more gracefully.

(0018942) zwei (reporter) 2011-11-04 03:15	I had ths happen recently, it is quite annoying to loose season because of simple oversight. Autosave with autobackup eats up disk space steadily. Lack of disk space definitelly calls for some kind of soluton other than "crash df" or "corrupt savegame".

(0032822) Loci (manager) 2015-06-29 12:38	Still occurs in v0.40.24.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-07-07 15:46	SeveQ	New Issue
2010-07-10 14:19	SeveQ	Tag Attached: saving
2010-07-10 15:55	smjjames	Note Added: 0009892
2010-07-22 05:28	SeveQ	Note Added: 0010810
2010-09-18 09:37	Quietust	Note Added: 0012791
2010-09-18 09:38	Quietust	Note Edited: 0012791	View Revisions
2010-09-18 10:44	Logical2u	Relationship added	has duplicate 0003271
2011-11-04 03:08	zwei	Issue Monitored: zwei
2011-11-04 03:15	zwei	Note Added: 0018942
2014-01-21 19:55	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0005773
2014-01-21 19:56	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0004824
2014-01-21 19:57	Footkerchief	Summary	DF silently fails to save game when disk is full => DF silently fails to save game when folder is not writeable (due to full disk, permissions, etc)
2014-01-21 19:57	Footkerchief	Summary	DF silently fails to save game when folder is not writeable (due to full disk, permissions, etc) => Saving fails silently when folder is not writeable (due to full disk, permissions, etc)
2015-06-29 12:38	Loci	Note Added: 0032822
2015-06-29 13:32	lethosor	Assigned To	=> lethosor
2015-06-29 13:32	lethosor	Status	new => confirmed
2015-06-29 13:33	lethosor	Relationship added	related to 0002017