leave it alone and it will come home
wagging its tail behind it
(almost works)
Not responding does not mean not working.
Long time ago programmers could regularly take a break waiting for the compiler to finish. I see this feature of sonar as an easter egg. Good catch there, Craig.
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I would have performed a 2 step: save-as to new file name with comment in name, pressed control z to remove the dumb part, including any newly created clips, and then saved as to a new file name.
I NEVER use save because it is destructive. Learned this nearly 30 years ago when I started programming spreadsheets.
And I do have the auto-backup function happening. A lot of good stuff can happen in 4 minutes. So sonar saves every 4 minutes, and after a defined number of changes.
And regularly I save-as to a new name. The sonar auto-save function should do this automatically, with the date and time added to the file name. This would significantly reduce lost, corrupted projects. And provides an "audit trail." Useful when an unseen clip/track was also selected during a delete.
I have removed the save button from all programs where possible. And have been semi-successful getting clients to get in the habit. Especially after they have to pay me emergency fees to recover files corrupted, or having deleted the only copy.
I think of save-as as the first level of file redundancy which we usually refer to as "backups."