Important question about auto-save in Sonar

[tubedude]

I have been getting errors a little more often and losing takes for some reason. Really sucks if I am submerged in my work and forget to save often enough.

I was using the autosave function, but for some reason it keeps stacking this bullshit up in my cakewalk folder:

autosave copy of song1
autosave copy of song1
autosavecopy of song1
autosave copy of song2
blach blah on and on...

All I want it to do is save the current version as is every 4 or 5 minutes so I dont auto-fuck myself... and it seems to save a million copys or something. Is this taking up a bunch of space by using autosave? why is it stacking up those takes in my "open a project" files?
Thanks.

 

[eichler]

Are you saying there are multiple autosave copies for the same song? That's strange, there should be only one autosave file for each project file. Have you renamed any of the projects? If so, the old autosave files will not be deleted automatically.

The autosave files don't take up much space (compared with the wave files)

 

[kgirl72]

Hey Tubedude,

That happens to me too. After I've saved the actual project and closed it, I'll go and delete those autosaves. It should all be in your project you just saved. I've had no troubles opening the files later after doing this. It is a bit irritating. It's kind of nice seeing only folders in your cakewalk folder instead of a bunch of files.

-Kirstin

 

[moskus]

I think it's a great feature. You set it to say 10 changes, then you're not screwed if you decide to go back on the changes and you have closed Sonar.

But it would be nice to be able to turn it off, so if you just want one Autosafe file, it just saves to that file...

 

[kgirl72]

Yes, that is cool. I never thought about that. Too bad it can't save them inside your project, kind of like the history function, where it saves the "snapshot" of where the project was at that point.

To use this well, though, I'd need to get a lot better at my record-keeping...i.e. what changes were on what autosave! I'm sure you guys that do this for money know better. I just am lazy.

ciao,
Kirstin