misleading impression of saving when exiting

[richlv]

When exiting with unsaved/un-uploaded changes, JOSM pops up an "Unsaved changes" dialog.

For data layers, this allows to choose whether the layer should be uploaded and/or saved.
If one selects saving and clicks "Click here to choose save path", the dialog allows to choose the path - and the main button there is titled "Save". Unfortunately, that button does not do any saving. Instead, it marks the layer for saving when "Perform actions before exiting" is pressed.

I made a silly mistake of expecting "Save" in that dialog to do saving right away, and clicked "Exit now" - losing two hours of edits. While it was my own silly lack of attention, perhaps the UI can be made a bit more obvious.

For example, maybe the path dialog could have buttons "Save now" and "Mark for saving". That might make people pay closer attention than a single "Save" button.

[Klumbumbus]

If you have wiki:Help/Action/AutoSave enabled you might be able to restore parts of your edits.

[richlv]

Thanks, I thought that explicitly exiting without saving removed autosave and did not even check them before re-doing the edits.

Is that correct?
Documentation is a bit unclear on that: "It keeps backups that are deleted, whenever a data layer is closed gracefully".

[Klumbumbus]

I don't know how it exactly works. In my autosave folder there is a subfolder "deleted_layers" which includes layers from yesterday and today.