I always seem to have a marginal PC, and the fact when autosave used to run it would push the PC over the edge and corrupt the file it was writing when the PC crashed - I always turned it off to decrease the chances of this happening. I would write when nothing much was going on, on the PC.
When I joined this forum originally, I had posted that most software I had used up to that date, saves the file to a hidden temp file and moves it into the correct name once the file is completely written so you always have something to fall back on.
I guess in a way this is what hexagon did (too bad they didn't do it five years ago)
The software I had used back then also cleaned up after itself (ie. after the file was written successfully, it got rid of the hidden temp files) - guess I'll have to get used to doing this myself if I leave this enhancement on.
Thanks for all the responses!
I always seem to have a marginal PC, and the fact when autosave used to run it would push the PC over the edge and corrupt the file it was writing when the PC crashed - I always turned it off to decrease the chances of this happening. I would write when nothing much was going on, on the PC.
When I joined this forum originally, I had posted that most software I had used up to that date, saves the file to a hidden temp file and moves it into the correct name once the file is completely written so you always have something to fall back on.
I guess in a way this is what hexagon did (too bad they didn't do it five years ago)
The software I had used back then also cleaned up after itself (ie. after the file was written successfully, it got rid of the hidden temp files) - guess I'll have to get used to doing this myself if I leave this enhancement on.
Thanks for all the responses!
