Matt Dunn

Here's an example of one of the auto-save quirks I've been observing and which I don't think is behaving as it should: Cakewalk had been auto-saving my project every 10 minutes, as per settings. At 22:18 I manually saved the project, yet at 22:20 it auto-saved itself again. Is this expected behaviour, simply because the auto-save setting is every 10 minutes? Surely the next auto-save time is (or should be) reset at the point of manually saving a project? Logically another auto-save shouldn't have been triggered on my project until 22:28? Or am I missing something obvious?

Sorry for not having followed up with this since posting in February. I set the auto-save to 10 minutes and the maximum number of changes, just to try to avoid it auto-saving based on number of changes. I then monitored for a few days and it seemed like it was doing what it was meant to do -- i.e. auto-saving every 10 minutes -- so... was Cakewalk gaslighting me? But soon enough it was back to it's old tricks again, just as I reported back in February. e.g., it will auto-save literally within 10-15 seconds of me having saved previously. Or, if I save the project and go away for some extended period, when I come back and unlock my computer, it auto-saves almost immediately after the very first thing I do, regardless of what that might be -- hitting record, clicking mute, duplicating, adding FX, adding a track, deleting a recording, moving the playhead, exporting, changing view, quantizing, processing an effect -- seemingly anything will trigger an immediate auto-save. This is especially annoying if I've gone away from the project to get myself 'in the zone' and I run back when I suddenly find myself in said zone with an idea I want to do something with before I forget it, but I have to sit through one of these way-too-slow unprovoked auto-saves before I can do anything!

Thanks Noel. I'll keep experimenting with time and change for a week so I have a definitive record of results, then send through.

Same thing. I thought it would stop and only respect the time, but even when changes were set to zero it kept happening. I do use plugins, most often just Cakewalk defaults but I guess some of the others might be fairly chunky (iZotope, Korg, Excalibur and the like), though I wouldn't really know tbh. Either way, would 9,000 parameter changes even be possible within a matter of 30-60 seconds?

Hi, apologies for this as I know it's been discussed multiple times in the past, but I've yet to find a solution that actually works, nor any clear explanation for why it happens. Between 9:30 and 9:41 this morning, Cakewalk 1) autosaved my project, 2) saved my project per my Ctrl+S, 3) auto-saved the project a second time, and 4) auto-saved the project a third time. Too much saving can't be a bad thing, right? I guess not, but only to a point. When you're working with very large projects that often take quite a while to save, it just becomes a distraction and an unwanted workflow delay. I've taken all the advice I've seen posted here in the past, except for turning off auto-save altogether. I've been burnt too many times to risk that. So I've changed the interval from 2 minutes to 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes. I've turned the number of changes right down to zero so that, theoretically, nothing I do will trigger auto-save. Currently I have it set to every 20 minutes or 9,000 changes. Yes, 9,000!!! And yet I still just got 3 auto-saves in 11 minutes, 2 of which came right after a manual save — the first of those within 60 seconds of that manual save and after all I'd done was delete two tiny records from the middle of the project. Am I doing something wrong? Or missing something obvious? Any further ideas or advice would be hugely appreciated coz, frankly, this has gotten pretty annoying. Cheers, Matt