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“assist” me to understand the Autosave feature
(it said not to use the word ‘help’ in the subject…so… assist it is) =)
Hi guys, this makes me feel silly.
So, I have a project. I have Autosave turned on. [To Backup Project] Every 5 minutes.
I hit Apply, then command-S to save.
6 minutes later I go back to the autosave window and I have an item in the list that I can load.
10 minutes later I go back to the Autosave, I see 2 entries, I hit [command-S] to save, and both entries disappear.
Is that normal?
(what I’m battling is this. I’ve been slowly grading something for a few days. This afternoon I realize that the second half of the piece is NOT graded. It’s back to “original” …”ok” I think, “i’ll just step back in the autosave… wait.. where is my autosave.)
again, it’s slightly embarrassing that I’m not grasping this. DESPITE reading the manual.
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The way the autosave works in Resolve floored me the first time I found myself needing it.
Basically your system is working normally. Resolve doesn’t keep a list of backed up projects the way that Final Cut does with the Autosave Vault or Avid with the Attic. When you set Resolve to autosave [to backup project] it incrementally saves backups of the project (as seen in the autosave list) but then those backups are overwritten once a real save is performed.
This comes in handy if Resolve crashes and you haven’t saved in half an hour. However it doesn’t help you if you realize that something in your project got messed up while you worked and saved along the way.
To work around this, I’ve gotten in the habit of versioning my projects by using the “save as” command. My first project for a job is named NAME_V01, and then I when I feel I’ve gotten to a milestone I’ll save the project as NAME_V02. That way I can go back in time if need be.
This should really be addressed as it can be maddening not to be able to go back in case something gets seriously messed up.roman hankewycz
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Wow. Thanks Roman =)
I understand now. And yes, having an accessible incremental backup would be great. Especially when things like this happen. (1/2 of the grade gone missing) I’m sure it’s my fault, but I’d like to time travel back to the time before I made that fault.
Thanks again. This should be added to the manual.
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