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Auto-Save Not Working Properly
I get PT crashes about 3-7 times a day on average, and I have it set to auto-save every 1 minute. However, after a crash when I check the backed up sessions the newest session is usually somewhere between the last 10 minutes and 45 minutes... not even close to every minute.
Anyone else getting this? I'm losing a lot of work here.
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Pro Tools 2022.12.0 Mac Pro 2019 OS X Big Sur Last edited by DrewHarrison; 12-01-2020 at 04:17 PM. |
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Re: Auto-Save No Working Properly
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Hi, Auto backup only works when the transport is stopped. so expect you were working with the session playing for 10mins or 45mins etc. get in the habit of hitting save. Chris
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Re: Auto-Save No Working Properly
Agree! We have had some problems aswell in the past with autosave as if we have big sessions running and automation etc the session could get problematic if autosave was trying to save.
We save every 3-5 mins by ourse๖ves and we know it will be done when sessions are stopped and wont get corrupted should a crash occur. Turn it off and do the saves by yourself is my advice to stay out of the crash issue
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Re: Auto-Save Not Working Properly
I'm usually 'in the zone' getting great mixes and automation done at the time. i.e., by best work, and then it's all gone.
How am I supposed to remember to stop and hit save when I'm in the zone? The world disappears and I am emersed in the music just moving faders, eq moves, automation, etc. Even if I set an alarm to remind me it would break the flow. Any ideas? It needs to just save.
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Pro Tools 2022.12.0 Mac Pro 2019 OS X Big Sur Last edited by DrewHarrison; 12-01-2020 at 04:18 PM. |
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Re: Auto-Save No Working Properly
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Hi, Just stopping the transport for a second will allow it to save. I know what you mean and we've all had times when we get involved and forget, but just try to remember to save your work as you go and don't do too much or leave it too long. If you have instruments that have samples and sound sets to save, this can cause the save to take longer and can cause issues itself. Chris
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PT MAC Troubleshooting... http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=54888 Producer, Engineer, UKmastering Mixing & Mastering Blinders_Columbia top 40 UK album charts Slow Readers Club Joy Of The Return #9 UK album charts www.ukmastering.com PT10.3.10 Mountain Lion HD6 accel Magma PE6R4 D Command 32 MacPro 12 Core 3.46ghz UAD-2 Octo x2. Manley Vari-Mu, Manley Massive Passive, SSL VHD, ADL600, Grove Tubes ViPre, Tube-Tech CL-1B. Hafler TRM active monitoring. |
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Re: Auto-Save Not Working Properly
What about using a macro that will hit Cmd+S at the interval of my choosing?
If I have to hold a "don't forget to..." statement in my head as I'm trying to listen to what the song wants, I'm not listening to what the song wants, I'm instead listening to the statement "don't forget to..."
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Pro Tools 2022.12.0 Mac Pro 2019 OS X Big Sur Last edited by DrewHarrison; 12-01-2020 at 04:17 PM. |
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Re: Auto-Save Not Working Properly
It happened again twice in the last hour, last saved over 15 minutes ago after lots of changes. I'm trying to remember to stop and save, but I'm listening to music. If I remember to save I forget to listen to the music. This is nuts.
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Re: Auto-Save Not Working Properly
Ctrl-S is a second-nature reflex for many of us I don't know if this relates to your rig, but I had a session today that threw an error message that it couldn't do an auto-save because one of the .bak files was corrupted. At first, I thought that's easy....I'll just delete that .bak file. But when I went to the Session Backup folder, it would not open(and gave me another error). Then I thought, I'll just delete the Backups folder, but that threw the same error message. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I tried to rename the folder and that worked(I added xxx in front of the folder name).
I also opened the session and did a Save Session Copy so I had a complete backup(but without any Auto-backups). Later, I opened both versions and each created a new backup folder and things worked fine after that. I still can't delete the renamed folder, but the newly created backup folder has a dozen fresh backup files from today.
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Re: Auto-Save Not Working Properly
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Hi, First, you could write a keyboard shortcut in the Mac prefs/keyboard/shortcuts and under app shortcuts you can assign the command "Save As..." exactly as it is written in the pro tools menu Save As... then assign this command to something easier maybe Shift+Z which are next to each other. Or get something like a shuttle or games controller that you can assign commands to and use that. Fortunately my control surface has a flashing red button Second, You need to troubleshooting why you're system is crashing so often. what are the crash logs saying? Chris
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PT MAC Troubleshooting... http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=54888 Producer, Engineer, UKmastering Mixing & Mastering Blinders_Columbia top 40 UK album charts Slow Readers Club Joy Of The Return #9 UK album charts www.ukmastering.com PT10.3.10 Mountain Lion HD6 accel Magma PE6R4 D Command 32 MacPro 12 Core 3.46ghz UAD-2 Octo x2. Manley Vari-Mu, Manley Massive Passive, SSL VHD, ADL600, Grove Tubes ViPre, Tube-Tech CL-1B. Hafler TRM active monitoring. |
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