Another half a day wasted....

Causam3D

Yep, another crash that cost me two hours of work plus the two hours it'll take me to reconstruct what I was doing.  Submitted the crash report to DAZ, again...  undoubtedly they'll ask me to duplicate the error as opposed to reading the crash report. 

"Sure, I'll spend four hours trying to duplicate the error, that'll be $100 in my paypal for the consulting fee, please."

Here's an idea.  Instead of generating an error report they apparently don't even read, why not have the software save the session to a temp location so that you can recover it?  Gosh, I think that would be a fantastic feature.  Never happen though.

FSMCDesigns

Why not save as you go, it's what many of us do.

nonesuch00

Quickest way to save your work is to save a new scene before each major change to the composition of the scene. That could add something like Blender's autosave & recover mechanisms I guess.

rsharp_3144816

FSMCDesigns said:

Why not save as you go, it's what many of us do.

Exactly.  Many many years ago, it was almost comical that I would throw in Command-S every so many keystrokes.   Software bugs aside, there are other cases where things can go wrong leading to lost work.

One very handy feature of Cinema 4D is 'Save incremental'.  Basically an automated Save As that just increments the number at the end of the file.

Serious work should really involve a version control system.  Or at minimum, a backup solution.  I employ the latter; backups are automatically made every hour.  So even if I lost my entire data RAID, I would only ever lose at most, one hour of work.

barbult

V3Digitimes has a product called Super Save that contains scrpts to do incremental save for Daz Studio scenes. It is not automatic, but it is easy to create a keystroke shortcut for it in the Daz preferences. It will save the scene file with a numeric suffix, like _001,_002, etc. each time you run it. The advantage of saving the scene with a new name each time is that you can easily regress to a previous version if something goes wrong. When you are all done, you can just delete all the previous incrementally saved scenes if you don't want them anymore. The Save Incremental Pro script will optionally also render a nice thumbnail for the scene and/or let you type notes about what you changed in that version. I usually don't render a thumbnail until I'm all done, because, even though it is a tiny render, it still takes a little time.

Her store is on sale today as part of March Madness. She really has a lot of very useful utilities for sale.

AJ2112

Know exactly how you feel, sorry this happened.  I learned the hard way, as others mention, save, save, save.  Power outage for me was a lesson learned.

WendyLuvsCatz

I just lost two hours work I couldn't save because my library external drive was not plugged into my UPS when a cocky got cooked on the transformer in the street.

Not much I could do but photograph the poor parrot.