Mark Durham

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.

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.

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.

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.


autosave-and-automatic-backups

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.

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

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.

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


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..

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.


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

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

Autosave and automatic backups