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Offline logandc99

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Turn off autosave
« on: July 31, 2016, 03:06:32 AM »
Sorry if this has been asked already - couldn't find a post on it.
Whilst the autosave feature is great and has saved my bacon a few times, is there a way of turning it off.
Only reason I ask is because I am sequencing a song (Light of Christmas) and I bought and imported the megatree 12 strand sequence. However, because of the imported effects, xlights takes a lot longer to save and render (about 90 seconds) and so with the autosave function turned on, the program freezes every few minutes or so which I am guessing (but I could be completely wrong) is due to the autosave. Any way of turning it off just for doing the sequence so I can see if it is the autosave or not. I turned off "render on save" but didn't make any difference.
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Logan

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2016, 04:38:22 AM »
Oops. Stupid me. Just found it. :P

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2016, 04:46:26 AM »
Hi Logan
Under Settings second from the bottom is Auto Save it can be disabled or set to 3,10,15 or 30 minutes. I have mine disabled because I save when I want to and as I'm on a Mac like I think you are I rely on my Time Machine to save my bacon. ;D
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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2016, 04:47:19 AM »
I see you found it while I was replying

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2016, 08:16:43 AM »

Did you import the SS sequence or the LMS?   Usually the SS version wouldn't take that long to render.

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2016, 02:28:47 PM »

Did you import the SS sequence or the LMS?   Usually the SS version wouldn't take that long to render.

Ooh heck, I can't remember now. I'm pretty sure it was the lms file.... I think.
Did it a while ago I'm afraid.

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2016, 04:38:10 PM »
Time machine replaces backup ... Not auto save.

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Re: Turn off autosave
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2016, 05:49:47 AM »
Keith what I was trying to say was that I usually need to resort to a backup to save MY bacon from one of my self inflicted disasters, not save