No offense taken because you're totally in the right. Thanks for bringing up
some points I hadn't taken into consideration guys. Learned a little
something (.xsipref, etc) so it wasn't a total wash. Thanks again.
-wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
kim aldis
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:30 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: auto save ON by default
I would never use autosave because saving is about fixing your work at
particular, suitable points in time. Points when particular tasks are
complete or for making temp backups when you want to try or test something.
With autosave it's far too likely that the save will happen in a broken
state or at just the wrong time. It also doesn't consider versioning and
regular saves completely destroy any chance of the backups being useful
unless you wack the count up through the roof.
Much better to get into the habit of saving at the appropriate points in
time.
(sorry Wayne, no offense intended)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane
> Sent: 31 August 2006 02:51
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: auto save ON by default
>
> as a rule, anything that generates disk space using material without an
> explicit instruction from the user, is best left off in the defaults.
> there's a number of things that could be better in autosave (although I
> seriously doubt I'd ever use it anyway), that is something hard to
> argue, but the default of the option is one thing Soft got right :)
> unprompted and unsolicited data writing that has no flashing red sign
> is a dangerous, dangerous thing to do.
>
> ******************************
> | Raffaele Fragapane |
> | Rising Sun Pictures |
> | "Remember, TD is for TopDog" |
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>
>
>
> Wayne Williams wrote:
>
> > Is there any way we can get autosave to be ON by default. I just lost
> > 2 hours of work because I took for granted the fact that autosave
> > would be on but it wasnt. I know it's totally my fault for losing the
> > work because I failed to save like I should have but I wouldnt have
> > lost anything had the preference been on. Is there any reason it is
> > toggled OFF by default?! What is the official request mail? I
> searched
> > the archive but couldn't seem to find it. Thanks!
> > -Wayne
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