Auto Vault Save

[Jerry Hofmann]

You should probably keep your project files and these autosaves on your startup disk in your User’s documents folder… or keep the autosaves on another drive if you want… but keeping them on the media drives in theory might slow down the drives. These files are smallish and constantly are being rewritten and trashed… so media files could be fragmented a bit more if autosaves are kept there.

The Autosaves are backup copies of your project file.

Jerry

[Tom Matthies]

I used to keep the auto save files on my startup drive…until one dark day the drive failed and I thought all was lost. That is until I discovered that I had actually set the autosave vault for that project to the media drive. Yippie! I dodged a big bullet. If I had both files on the same drive and that drive failed, everything is gone. I usually put the Autosave files right in the media drives in a folder within a project folder in the capture scratch folder. Everything seems to run just fine. I also periodically copy my entire projects folder to another drive that I use just for saving misc. stuff. This way, I always have three copies of any given project.
Loose your system drive sometime and try to rebuild a hundred or so projects and you too will make backup copies of your projects and stash them all over the place. I even copy a backup to my folder onto our network when I think of it. I haven’t lost a project since. Someday I’ll actually install that copy of Retrospect bought after the last system drive crash…someday.
Tom

[Jerry Hofmann]

Ya know? when I’m done with a project file it goes to a CD… every day I copy a project file I’m still working on to a flash drive, or another startup disk. Got several here…

Jerry

[Ross Hallen]

Thank you for your help.
Ross