--- trunk/src/gcvote.c	2009/11/04 20:28:54	159
+++ trunk/src/gcvote.c	2009/11/05 07:00:52	160
@@ -237,6 +237,15 @@
   return FALSE;
 }
 
+static void gcvotes_free(gcvote_t *votes) {
+  while(votes) {
+    gcvote_t *next = votes->next;
+    if(votes->id) g_free(votes->id);
+    g_free(votes);
+    votes = next;
+  }
+}
+
 void gcvote_save(appdata_t *appdata, cache_t *cache, curl_mem_t *mem) {
   if(!mem->len || !mem->ptr) return;
 
@@ -324,7 +333,7 @@
   
   /* then cleanup the formpost chain */ 
   curl_formfree(formpost);
-  
+
   printf("gcvote: worker thread done\n");
   gcvote_request_free(request);
 
@@ -367,3 +376,48 @@
   return request;
 }
 
+vote_t *gcvote_restore(appdata_t *appdata, cache_t *cache) {
+  /* load data from disk */
+  char *filename = g_strdup_printf("%s%s/gcvote.xml",
+				   appdata->image_path,
+				   cache->id);
+
+  printf("gcvote: trying to restore from %s\n", filename);
+
+  /* no such file? */
+  if(!g_file_test(filename, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+    printf("gcvote: no such file\n");
+    free(filename);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+
+  LIBXML_TEST_VERSION;
+  xmlDoc *doc = xmlReadFile(filename, NULL, 0);
+
+  if(doc == NULL) {
+    printf("gcvote: error, could not parse file %s\n", filename);
+    free(filename);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+ 
+  free(filename);
+
+  /* in this case this will sure only return one result */
+  gcvote_t *votes = parse_doc(doc);
+  
+  if(!votes) {
+    printf("gcvote: error, no vote found\n");
+    free(filename);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+
+  vote_t *vote = g_new0(vote_t, 1);
+  vote->quality = votes->quality;
+  vote->votes = votes->votes;
+
+  printf("gcvote: found vote %d/%d\n", vote->quality, vote->votes);
+
+  gcvotes_free(votes);
+
+  return vote;
+}