Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes?

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2015/04/07 05:27:16 (permalink)

Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes?

On a larger project, autosave halts work for several seconds even on a pretty powerful computer.   Is it possible that this is the reason for some of the odd behavior I and others notice in platinum?     For instance, if a "paste special" into a large number of tracks happens to come exactly as the autosave is occurring?   The paste can't happen after autosave starts, but can autosave start during the paste? 
 
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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/07 09:39:19 (permalink)
    I don't think it can. And the best way to determine if autosave is the culprit or not is to disable the feature for a while.

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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/07 09:49:29 (permalink)
    I really believe that autosave causes a lot of my crashes (which are not often, but do happen during a 100+ hour work week).  No way am I going to work without autosave.  But I see no difference between X3 and Platinum as far as autosave.

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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/08 04:54:15 (permalink)
    Not seeing a problem, of course, isn't saying it doesn't exist.   But I turned off auto save (and turned ON a mental reminder to save save save ) and have had no issues at all in a heavy work session ...
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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/08 05:15:24 (permalink)
    I think it's really difficult to make autosave perfect.
    I have it turned off since I don't know the principles for it.
     
    Reaper has these options for autosave - "when not recording", "when transport stopped" etc.
    Would be nice to see in Sonar too.
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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/08 06:56:49 (permalink)
    I have never relied on auto-save - I just always save before performing any significant action, and if committed to the outcome of the action, will save again.
     
    And I will make a backup copy of the project folder if I am going to be making a lot of changes to the project.
     
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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/08 07:42:52 (permalink)
    I remember reading a while back that Autosave only kicks in when the system is idle - which is exactly as it should be.

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    Re: Could autosave be the culprit for some crashes and freezes? 2015/04/08 15:26:52 (permalink)
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    On a larger project, autosave halts work for several seconds even on a pretty powerful computer.   Is it possible that this is the reason for some of the odd behavior I and others notice in platinum?     For instance, if a "paste special" into a large number of tracks happens to come exactly as the autosave is occurring?   The paste can't happen after autosave starts, but can autosave start during the paste? 
     


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