Auto saves?

[Leander]

Hi! 

Are there auto saves? I hardly get any crashes, but Sonar just crashed and I hadn't saved for 90 minutes (I was only fooling around, nothing special, but still some work lost).

[57Gregy]

9 minutes ago, Leander said:

Hi! 

Are there auto saves? I hardly get any crashes, but Sonar just crashed and I hadn't saved for 90 minutes (I was only fooling around, nothing special, but still some work lost).

Yes. I don't remember what the defaults were. I purposely set mine to 0.

[57Gregy]

[Leander]

Thanks! Ok, my default is 0...so nothing saved.

[Amberwolf]

AFAICR, the autosave only does anything if you have saved at least once for that project, or else it doens't know what or where to save.   

 

So if you intend to use it, make sure you *always* save the project once you set it up before you do any actual work in it.  Even if you just save it once you open your template or start a blank project, you have at least given Sonar a starting point to begin autosaves.

 

If you are going to use the x number of minutes autosave, it seems to work normally regardless of conditions / plugins / etc.,

But if you are using the x number of *changes* autosave (in addition to minutes or instead of), there have been plugins that constantly dirty the project for whatever reason and cause the autosave to happen very frequently or even continously (essentially locking up the program).  It's not a problem with Sonar itself (and wouldn't matter what version you're using, even my ancient one)--it's doing what it is supposed to...it's the plugin...  For me, the one I have this issue with is Shred by AcmeBarGig...but I still use it because it is a "good enough" amp sim for my purpsoes and has a bunch of preset racks that already do the sounds I'm after. I just have ot turn off the x-number-of-minutes autosave in projects I'm using it in.  If the plugin is not in the project, there's no problem.