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Posted by hansmex at Sep 29, 2010, 1:37:07 PM
Re: I may have been sketching out a home but I'm in the dog's house now...
Emmanuel,

You may, or may not, remember the request for an Autosave feature. This is one of the reasons for such a request. I've stopped complaining about the frequent crashes myself, just using the workaround I've found to avoid most of them.

Suppose I have created a file called file1.sh3d .
- When I open file1.sh3d, SH3D creates file1.work and file1.bak.
- Exiting with saving, SH3D updates file1.sh3d and deletes file1.work; file1.bak should not be altered from its last state, so that in case the save operation fails, the backup file can "save the day".
- Exiting without saving (from a power outage or crash), leaves the old file1.sh3d and file1.bak without changes, and a corrupt file1.work.
- Restarting SH3D with either file1.sh3d or file1.bak, creates a new file1.work which overwrites the old, corrupt file1.work.
- When starting on a new project called file2.sh3d, there would be created a file2.bak and file2.work, so that older work isn't overwritten.

Just my two cents.

Hans
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