Auto Save Issue

I've had this Auto Save issue off and on for some time. While I'm trying to comp or edit, say in Melodyne, the auto save is constantly saving! I have it set to 50 changes or five minutes but it saves every two to three changes! What a royal pain in the butt! What am I doing wrong here?
 
Thanks for any suggestions, help or ideas.
 
Paul
 
Kingston, now back to JP

reginaldStjohn
I don't know if you are doing anything wrong. I just had a similar issue. I had Rapture or Dim Pro open and every time I changed a preset the project would save.  I have not noticed this before. Maybe it is a new bug?
I am going to try to reproduce it to see if it is.

Thanks for the reply.
 
I've not kept track of it but this has happened off and on for quite some time.

Bristol_Jonesey
HI Paul.
 
I've just tried it here and it seems to be ok.
But it is only a very small project so the saving *might* be happening too quickly to even register that a save has happened.
I'll try it on a bigger project when I power up my DAW - currently on laptop.

Thanks Colin.  I don't know if it's doing it all the time or not.  I especially notice it when, for example, I'm editing in Melodyne.  I move a blob or two and then Melodyne hangs while Sonar Auto Saves.  I move a few more blobs and once again, I'm waiting on Sonar to Auto Save.  So much for my setting of "50" changes!  I made that setting years ago to solve this problem.  I can't remember if it actually did though.  I do know it's not specific to Kingston. 
 
When I get back to Sonar, I'll try and pay attention to when it's actually happening.  BTW, I'm back on JP.
 
Paul

Bristol_Jonesey
Maybe change it from number of changes to number of minutes?

I guess I took it to mean, (in my case), 50 changes or 5 minutes which ever comes first.  Is that not the way you read it?

I've had this problem in August and posted about it but no one responded.  (I am still quite hurt.)
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Autosave-Wacky-in-Hopkinton-Platinum-m3279545.aspx
 
Like you, I tried setting the options to save very rarely but it still seemed to save every 2 or 3 changes or every 20 or 30 seconds.  It was totally annoying, interrupted work flow repeatedly and led to some crashes. It seems resolved now.  I have no idea why.

I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this.
 
Sorry, Bill.  If I had seen your post I most assuredly would have responded.
 
Paul

Adq
Auto-save every N changes is totally unusable, because it seems that turn of plug-in's knob can produce dozens of "changes". So this option needs rethinking from software design point of view, or it just can't be used. Auto-save every N minutes is more usable, but it also has a problem. It would save even if you make one smallest change in this time interval, and it is not always desired behavior I believe. So couple of more smart auto-save options must be added to make it work much better.

For this reason, amongst others, I never use auto save, but Control & S has become a reflex action for many years.

There should be an option to auto-save on stop. The current options just don't work for me either. So I Cntrl-S obsessively. The versions feature has been helpful, but I had to increase the #of versions to keep because I would have 7 versions essentially identical.

It's the * next to the file name at the top.

No, I mean something like "Saved 10 min and 100 changes ago".

This happens when you use audiosnap and creat transients.   I reported this ages ago and go nothing back.   I also do what was suggested above to some succes 10 min 200 chgs but it only helps so much.  When it get really bad I turn of autosave and make sure I save constantly on my own.  Did you enable audiosnap in your project?

Holy cow!  You step away for a few minutes and look what happens!
 
Thanks for posting guys.  I had thought of shutting the Auto Save off and now that I see others are doing it I might too.  If nothing else, when I'm in Melodyne.
 
Paul