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Leapfrog
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« on: April 02, 2009, 10:28:58 PM »
I think it is a great thing to have AnyRail make a security copy of the track every five minutes or so. With recent crashes of AnyRail I lost a lot of work every time AnyRail crashed.
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2009, 07:39:21 AM »
You are right, this might be a good idea.
Of course, we want to solve the crash as well. As we have had no other reports of this happening, I hope we can work together with you to find the cause and solve it.

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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 08:53:43 AM »
A security copy while editing might be a nice-to-have. But it is not allways desired to overwrite the original. I often make changes to see how it looks and than decide to save or ignore and go back to the start-layout. A solution could be to save the security copy in a special folder.

Sander

[edit] Did you know that it is not possible to ignore a edit just by opening the original again ?
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2009, 02:16:01 PM »
Tony / David,

The solution to the whole thing is to simply be able to define a location for the backup files that is different from the place chosen for the original. That might sound cumbersome, but a single default backup folder and a small timer for auto-backups should be fairly easy.
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 11:18:59 AM »
"Autosave" has been added to the software in version 3.26.0.

It saves a copy of your work every 10 minutes in a special folder, that you can find if you open the 'File/Autosave folder' menu in AnyRail. You can open auto-saved files from there.
When you leave the program in a normal way, all these copies are removed, so your hard disk will not be filled with unnecessary stuff.
Only the last four copies of your session are preserved.
The file names of the copies follow a specific numbering system, so that if you have AnyRail running twice at the same time, these copies don't interfere.

So, what do you need to do if your computer crashed, or if AnyRail terminated in an unexpected way:
- Start AnyRail.
- Go to 'File/Autosave folder' and open the most recent file you find there. If it is not what you were looking for, try the other files in this folder.
- The file will be named 'Untitled', so you need to save it in a normal manner when you leave the program.

Note: Of course we do everything to prevent AnyRail from crashing itself. If that happens, please don't hesitate to inform us to solve the issue: it's our main goal to keep AnyRail as robust as it can possibly be.
However, there might be cases that you are running AnyRail, and your computer decides to reboot during the 'Windows Automatic Update'. Sometimes that may cause losing your work. Of course, in the case of a power interruption, you might lose your work as well. These are the cases that this feature should be of great help.

David.
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