That seems very odd - the last saved file date is 4 days older than the last time you saved (not autosave)? Something pretty wrong there. I might start checking to see if things are actually getting saved correctly on your machine, especially with big files. There might be something that is failing with the save process. Do you have .bak files enabled in Options>Files? If so, the .bak files will be the next-to-last saved file.
Yep. However I’m willing to bet you lost all those precious minutes again trying to find and recover the file when it crashed… Just sayin’…
And just to re-iterate - the Rhino autosave process is COMPLETLY INDEPENDENT of the normal saving process. Autosave does not save your file as if you pressed the save button. It saves a copy of the file for an emergency. Every time it saves, it overwrites any older copy. If you save and close a Rhino file successfully without crashing, the autosave file is deleted - the last one will be found in the recycle bin.
not talking about autosave. yesterday ( 06/04/2021 ) i regularly saved the file at 7.00 pm
when i tried to open the original file today after the crash the file version was very old (02/04/2021 ). I was supposing to fin file saved yesterday
luckily the file stored in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\AutoSave was the one saved testerday at 7.00 pm
Not sure if this of any use but I figured that if …Appdata/Local does not exist it saves the autosaves in the recycle bin. I have a brand new machine and installed only a few programs yet. Does that sound right? If this is indented it should be mentioned somewhere.
Haven’t read through all the comments but I couldn’t find anything regarding this particular issue.
Username\AppData and all of the subfolders in the tree below are hidden by default in Windows. To access them easily, I suggest unhiding all folders temporarily (Windows setting) and then creating shortcuts to the necessary hidden folders. Then you can re-hide them. the shortcuts will work even when the folders are hidden. The following is useful to have direct access to:
C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0 (or 6.0 or 8.0 etc.)
You might also have other programs (like RhinoCAm) that store stuff under ProgramData (also hidden), you can do the same for those.
A quick “openAutoSaveFolder” command would be nice. Or add it as an option to the AutoSave command. IMO that isn’t a good command since all it does it autosave the file without warning, and that might cause issues IF the file you want to recover was an unsaved file, and you run that command on a new document, because then it just overrides the old autosave. (Maybe just me, but I would expect the AutoSave command to open the settings, not autosave the file. Why would I want to autosave a file when I could just save or saveAs that file? Does that make sense?)
Today I had a sudden crash Rhino crash and hadn’t saved for an hour or so. When I started Rhino again I got no indication that a crash had occured so it didn’t ask if I wanted to open the autosave. So I went to settings-files-autosavefolder and copied the string and pasted in to filemanager. That’s how I go the that folder because I never took the time to memorize where it is. So a quick-open-folder command would be handy, as computers and apps crashes every now and then, even today and even super-robust Rhino.
Just to say that this occurs fairly regularly for me as well - I would say 1-2 times a week minimum - most of the time when in layout view. Usually there is an old file in the recycle bin so I usually only lose 1/2hr of work
Ironically, more than once it has happened during the autosave process (the programme crashes while displaying ‘autosaving filename etc etc’)
i have switched to a new work station because the hardware of the old one was not adequate anymore:
The machine does have now also RH8 installed ( beside Rh7 and RH6 ) and the switch was made by making a picture of the hard disk.
before the switch the autosave was on by defualt and my habit was to delete all stuff inside autosave folder say every few days because the amount of stuff inside was growing quickly.
i have now relized that after the switch the autosave folders at below path are always empty for all rhino version, no saved files inside :
C:\Users\frossi\AppData\Local\McNeel\Rhinoceros
How i can turn on the autosave function on all files by default on all installed rhino versions ?
