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Auto Save Killing Me
Hi all,
About every 10 minutes or so my Final Curt X program begins “backing up” (according to the Background Tasks wind). I have a fairly large project, it usually takes about 30 seconds for it to complete this automatic function. During this time, system responsiveness slows to a crawl – basically no editing for the duration. Since this happens every ten minutes or so, it is a real buzz-kill to productivity.
Is this normal? Is there any way to turn off this auto-save function or at leaf set it to occur less often?
Thanks!
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13 Replies
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Is your system drive designated as the backups drive- is it close to full?
Noah
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[Sterling Noren] “Is this normal? Is there any way to turn off this auto-save function or at leaf set it to occur less often?”
You can turn it off. Select the Library, open the inspector, click the “modify settings” button next to Storage Locations, click the Backups drop down and choose “Do Not Save’. If you do this, I’d strongly recommend using Backups for Final Cut Pro (app store) or something. Having no backups is a very bad idea. I use Backups, as well as Digital Rebellion Pro Versioner. More is better. 🙂
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Odd. I even have mine set to backup to the cloud and a lot of large projects open (though the amount of data per backup cycle is in fact *very* small) and I never notice it. I would assume there may be an issue with the disk you are saving to.
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I assume you don’t have Tima Machine on. That gave me trouble, long ago.
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Not might, Bret, would.
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are you backing up the ptroject and the media, or just the project? If you are backing up project and media, I can see why things would grind to a halt on back up.
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[Mark Smith] “are you backing up the ptroject and the media, or just the project?”
FCP X’s backup feature does not backup media.
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Why did I think that backing up media was an option? Has it been an option in the past?
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Backing up at all is a new feature. So no it wasn’t an option in the past. A decent idea, but a good Raid 5 probably addresses large amounts if data better than a background backup.
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