Project - Save Point

[Astraios]

It often happens to me that when I'm finished editing, I don't remember when I last saved. If I see it was half an hour ago, I'd save, but if it was only eight minutes ago, maybe not yet...

[sjoens]

Or how about a Toast message stating such?

[Amberwolf]

I learned the hard way in many programs to SaveAs  (NEVER "save") after any important edit, or every series of edits (like if I'm adding any content, SaveAs new filename, then move the content a bit, saveas, trim it, save as, etc). 

Becomes part of the workflow rapidly, and doesnt' slow down the process (except when I have a lot of slip-edited clips, especially if they are all chopped up bits of a longer clip, especialy with a lot of midi notes in them, which causes my ancient SONAR to take at least several seconds up to half a minute to write the file (same for timed autosaves).  

Doing this has saved many a project in many programs from system or program crashes, corruption, hardware failures, bad editing choices  , etc. over the decades.   

 

I bound the Ctrl-S to SaveAs *and* removed the save icon from the toolbar so I can't ever save over the top of anything unless I deliberately choose to do that (which there is no reason to do).   

 

[sjoens]

I "save" repeatedly and only "save-as" after I do a mix-down so I can go back to it if the newest version goes sideways.

Like the game Weakest Link,  if you don't "bank" (save or save-as) regularly you get nothing for all your hard work when it crashes.  And it will crash!

[Max Arwood]

Multiple saves write a file not visible to CbB/Sonar till you rename it. It is good for a quick save. I usually do save as song 01, song 02, etc.  Sometimes I use save as- song 01 - new tempo or song 01 - added strings. You would be surprised how helpful these file names with edit info are. Sometimes I save as song 01a, song 01b if there are minor changes I want to capture.