The auto-save does have versioning, or at least it did in 7. As far as the "save as" thing, that would be pretty easy to affect on your own

You mind elaborating on that? I would love to have a shortcut to save as without having to name/number it

I'd never trust any sort of autosave.

It's all too easy for it too kick in when you've just inadvertantly deleted something.

No, it's Ctrl + S all the way here.




As for versioning, that itself opens up a whole rats nest of misinformation & problems.


It's all too easy to fall into the trap of simply doing a "save as" and incrementing your project from e.g. "My Song 1.1" to My Song 1.2"

Then, one day, you decide to clear out your system a bit and you realise that there is no easy way to delete not just the .cwp of whatever song it is you want to clean up, but also all the audio tracks that go with it.

These will all mount up in the project audio folder and you won't have a clue which bit of audio goes with which particular version.

(A workaround is to do a 'save as' but to a totally different part of your filesystem, this ensures that Sonar COPIES all the audio files to the new location, provided you've got that option checked).

Now, you can do what you want with all the other, outdated versions, copy to Backup & delete being my choice.

I freed up 250Gb of disc space over the weekend, just from doing this on 15 or so projects.

'd never trust any sort of autosave. It's all too easy for it too kick in when you've just inadvertantly deleted something. No, it's Ctrl + S all the way here.

Bristol, autosave saves to it's own file. not mysong.cwp but autosavemysong.cwp.

Using the reliable, user-controlled CTRL+S isn't a "work-around," -it's how saving works in Windows.  Auto Save is there for people who for some reason prefer a computer to decide when to save, but I have no idea if it's working correctly in X1 or 8.5, or any version of Sonar, since I don't find it a useful concept and don't care to test it out. 

I'll go with the expert advice in the Groove 3 videos which suggests users stay with the solid, reliable CTRL+S.

Randy B.

  My biggest irritation is that the auto-save cause a glitch or burp during the recording process. it would be great if sonar could differentiate between record and adjustments. I realize it woudl involve stopping and starting the audio engine to prevent you from trying to record during a save?

Not sure what is causing your issue but Autosave doesn't save while the transport is running, that includes during recording.

If auto saving is regularly crashing your system, then I suggest you backup frequently using autosave ;).

Has anybody supplied info as to exactly what this crash is. A dump? A screenshot? Error messages. Windows event viewer log?

BTW try switching off your virus scanner and see what happens.

Cheers...

Bristol_Jonesey


I'd never trust any sort of autosave.

It's all too easy for it too kick in when you've just inadvertantly deleted something.

No, it's Ctrl + S all the way here.

Same here.

Loptec

Bristol_Jonesey


I'd never trust any sort of autosave.

It's all too easy for it too kick in when you've just inadvertantly deleted something.

No, it's Ctrl + S all the way here.

Same here.

Except for it wouldn't matter because it doesn't overwrite the original file, it creates a completely independent copy. It's more like an automatic "save as..."

Loptec

Bristol_Jonesey


I'd never trust any sort of autosave.

It's all too easy for it too kick in when you've just inadvertantly deleted something.

No, it's Ctrl + S all the way here.

Same here.

2 things, first - OLD THREAD ALERT!!!! This was originally posted in 2011

Second, I have now revised my thinking on Autosave and use it all the time in X2a