Hello,
if the user saves a file and then presses quit, the program asks if it should save before quitting. This is unnecessary if the file has not been changed since the last save.
I often save new versions (with a new date, new time) before quitting. It’s quite irritating to see the “unsaved-changes” dialog box popping up again and again.
Could we please remove it? (If the last save is the current version, then no “save-on-exit”)
(Rhino does not work like that in version 8.)
Thanks
/Erik
Hi @erik6,
Quick question: when you save those dated versions, is “Save as Rhino 8 file” (or an earlier version) checked in the Save As dialog?
If it is, the prompt is on purpose. A Rhino 8 file can’t hold everything a Rhino 9 model can, so Rhino doesn’t count that save as a complete copy of your work. It keeps the model marked as changed, and that’s why Exit asks again.
Rhino 8 does the same thing. If you save as a Rhino 7 file there, Exit will ask too. You probably never noticed because in Rhino 8 you were saving in the current version.
If you save as a Rhino 9 file, the model is marked as saved and Exit closes without asking. If you also need a Rhino 8 copy, save that one first and the Rhino 9 file last, and you’ll get out the door without the prompt.
-- Dale
Hello,
nothing is checked. I’m saving Rhino 9 files.
I just tested again.
Open a new file. Draw a box. Save it as “hello.3dm”. Then press “x” in the right corner. This comes up:
It should not, as the file was already saved and no commands entered afterwards. (I did virtually nothing, only moved the mouse to the “x” in the corner.)
In Rhino 8 it works. No dialog comes up and Rhino quits.
This is clearly a bug.
/Erik
Following your instructions, I am not seeing the same thing here… Hitting the X box immediately after saving just closes Rhino 9 immediately, no warning message.
Do you have any non-standard plug-ins running?
Hm,
I now see what is happening.
If you open a new file, create a box, and save the file as SaveAs and then quit, a dialogue will come up.
If you open a new file, create a box and save the file as Save and then quit, no dialogue will come up.
I think in both cases there should be no dialogue … But maybe the logic behind the SaveAs prohibits this.
/Erik
But, musing a bit more over this:
If I have a file called work261019.3dm and I have been working on it for two hours and today’s date is 261020 and I want to save a new “incremental copy” so that I can go back if something does not work out … What do I do? I do SaveAs and write “work261020.3dm”. And the filename changes in the left corner of the Rhino window to “work261020.3dm”. That’s all fine. I would expect that. But then when I hit Quit, it asks if it should save the file again before quitting.
(If I used “Save a copy” … the dialogue would make sense.)
Also, as I said before, Rhino 8 did not work like this.
/Erik
@dale I have duplicated what @erik6 has reported in his recent posts.
Rhino 9 is not behaving as you described.
Rhino 9 always keeps the model marked as changed after SaveAs is used, even if the SaveAs was as a Rhino 9 file and the contents of the model has not changed since SaveAs. When the user clicks to exit the “Save changes” dialog appears.
Simple example:
Open Rhino 9
Create an object. (This step is optional)
SaveAs a Rhino 9 file.
Click to exit and the “Save changes” dialog appears.
Thanks Erik and David. You’re right: SaveAs leaves the model marked as changed even when it’s saved as a Rhino 9 file, so my earlier explanation doesn’t cover what you’re seeing.
For now, running Save once after SaveAs clears it, and Exit won’t prompt.
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-99690
– Dale
Thanks. Great. We’re economizing on disk I/O … 
