Autosave and automatic backups

Mark Durham's icon

It's ironic that when I'm really into a patch I forget to save it. Just lost an hour of patching because I opened the itable help file and Max crashed.

Now, I'm really loving Max 6, but still no autosave or auto patch backup? It's 2012 now - surely this is a standard feature for any software.

Yours hopefully...

Mark

edit: just saw that there are other threads about this so sorry for adding another, just needed to vent some fraustration. There must be an easier way.

visa tapani's icon

I agree, I find it absolutely unbelievable that a complex and polished program such as Max where you are constantly working with unstable environments doesn't have autosave. And I don't think there's a thread for Max 6 about this yet, so one is definitely in place.

So, +1, to put it mildly.

LiamCormacGould's icon

just fell foul of this (insert my own stupidity instead of 'this') AUTOSAVE/BACKUP please to protect me from myself.....

roger.carruthers's icon

One way round this is use Dropbox and save all your work in a folder in your Dropbox folder.
Not only are your patches then available wherever you work with a network connection, but they are also backed up.
Got me out of trouble a few times,
Cheers
Roger

11OLSEN's icon

seriously, why don't you build your own solution. that's what max is all about. build a reminder that pops up every 30min or so. Or use the write msg to thispatcher if you really need automated saving..
O.

MIB's icon

or use something like this...

3775.autosave.zip
zip
11OLSEN's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

or put this into your main patcher

Phivos-Angelos Kollias's icon

I was very enthousiastic finding the autosave.zip from MIB after having lost some hours of programming (never understood why there is no auto-save in MAX after years and years). But there is no happy end:
1) there’s an object missing: newobj: fscopy: No such object
There is an error at the javascript code: lh.as: Javascript ReferenceError: w is not defined, line 33

Please help!