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Heya,

I'm often working on several projects at once, or needed to refer back and forth to different vwx files during a session. I have auto save set up every 10 minutes-learned this the hard way year ago that it need to be very frequent.

 

However I still find I'll perform a function and the pinwheel of death arrive. So far my only option is to eventually force quit the entire vectorworks program and lose the data on a bunch of files.

 

I've no idea how complicated the coding would be, but it would be an amazing feature for Vectorworks to create an internal force quit- rather than using the computer to end the program, but being able to make vectorworks stop the last command, without closing the program. If I can stop the function (the render, hiddne lines, moving large objects etc) and then save all my files before a re-start, that would be amazing.

 

Internal Force Quit- force quitting a function rather than an entire program.

 

 

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It is not unlikely that Auto Save - set by time interval - clashes with

VW still being busy by working on a command.

 

You can try to switch from time interval/number of minutes to

number of commands.

(I use after every 16th step)

This way Auto Save will start after the last command has finished.

 

For me that feels much more stable.

 

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On 12/31/2021 at 9:43 AM, zoomer said:

It is not unlikely that Auto Save - set by time interval - clashes with

VW still being busy by working on a command.

 

You can try to switch from time interval/number of minutes to

number of commands.

(I use after every 16th step)

This way Auto Save will start after the last command has finished.

 

For me that feels much more stable.

 

I have gone to this same backup technique. I use twenty steps but even 20 go by in a heartbeat. I have, as of VW2022 also chosen one location for all backup files, which has made that type of housekeeping so much easier. 

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18 minutes ago, LarryO said:

Having Vectorworks saving the backups to your local drive rather than a networked fileserver I've found that to be more stable also.

My backup folder is local, but in my dropbox folder, so best of both worlds, kinda

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