This may make no sense - but can the autosave files be diverted to a different folder or drive even - or must it stay attached to the original project? I certainly realize the value of the backups - but in doing some file "housecleaning" this morning I found a load of them and even ---- autosaves of autosaves....

"Save" saves to the projects destinaion and "Save As'  saves to a destination decided by you. So the answer is no. Its "autosave", not "autosaveas"

Got it - thanks

Remember as well that cwp files are relatively small, they don't contain the project audio only pointers to it.

silvercn


This may make no sense - but can the autosave files be diverted to a different folder or drive even - or must it stay attached to the original project? I certainly realize the value of the backups - but in doing some file "housecleaning" this morning I found a load of them and even ---- autosaves of autosaves....

By using "Enable Versioning of Project" in the auto-save window I would guess you'll get.. kind of what you want..

Even though the oldest version disappears when a new save is made, you'll have at least a few older versions to go back to if you want to.

It should just be a matter of finding the right time between saves and the right number of versions you want to have availabe to give you a nice working enviroment.. :)

I don't use "auto-save" myself (cuz I press ctrl+s unconsciously when ever I've changed something anyway, and make a new "save as" when ever I'm about to make a bigger change (just putting the current date  at the start of the file name)) ..but isn't this exactly what versioning is about; being able to go back a few versions?