A question about Autosaving

sqblz wrote on 12/27/2002, 6:11 AM

I know that we can tell VV3 to do periodic autosaves (in "Preferences").
But:
- can we indicate *where* will the autosave be made ? Or will it be the generic temp folder that we indicate VV to use ?
- can we tell VV the periodicity of the autosaves (say, each 5 or 10 minutes)?
I have looked in the Advanced Preferences but there isn't any system variable that seems to do the trick.

Yesterday I was happilly editing when the electricity in my neighbourhood went down :-((. When it recovered I had nothing saved (my temp folder is erased every boot).

Comments

Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/27/2002, 7:41 AM

Hi sqblz,

AFAIK, there is no way to designate where the autosaves are created.

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Chienworks wrote on 12/27/2002, 8:25 AM

If you save manually, future autosaves will go to the same .veg file. So after starting a project, save it to the name/location you want and autosaves will go there.

BillyBoy wrote on 12/27/2002, 8:41 AM

I also recommend you do generation saves which just means as you work through your project the file you are saving doesn't overwrite the last copy you saved which would be the case if you just save as 'myfile' over and over. The advantage is if you make some major error, just no longer like what you've changed or suffer either a power failure or system crash, you never lose more then a "generation" and you have most of the work you completed previously to fall back on. So myfile-C, is a little more complete than myfile-B was, which was more complete than myfile-A, etc.. Once you're done with your project rename the VEG file to something more descriptive if you plan to keep it.