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Tue Oct 02, 2018 5:36 pm Post
Scrivener already has the function to create a backup. It already has the function for timed saves. Very little needs be done to combine the two.
Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:35 pm Post
kewms wrote:In my experience, "Save As" has caused far more problems than Scrivener's automatic saves. A significant number of "lost data" issues ultimately trace to a "Save As" command that caused the user to mistakenly open an old version of the project that didn't have the latest changes
Katherine
Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:59 pm Post
APeterG wrote:Is it safe for me to bring my Scrivener 1.9.16.0 project into the current Beta? I understand that it is probably not possible to go back the other way once I make edits but I will, of course, make a backup before I try it.
What I am concerned about is whether the beta is sufficiently stable that I won't lose anything once the beta morphs into the "gold" release.
Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:27 am Post
FredBob wrote:And, even when gold, I will continue to manually save every few minutes until scrivener is equipped with timed auto-backups.
Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:40 am Post
kewms wrote:FredBob wrote:And, even when gold, I will continue to manually save every few minutes until scrivener is equipped with timed auto-backups.
Which is unlikely ever to happen.
Why? Because for a large project, it's a performance issue. A backup, by definition, is a complete copy of the entire project. A user in another thread was recently talking about 20 *GB* of text alone, and that much again in research materials.
Personally, I would recommend having either an offsite or an external drive backup (or both) that's independent of both Scrivener and "cloud" services. Something like this is the ideal tool to use for timed backups as well.
Katherine
Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:14 am Post
FredBob wrote:kewms wrote:FredBob wrote:And, even when gold, I will continue to manually save every few minutes until scrivener is equipped with timed auto-backups.
Which is unlikely ever to happen.
Loony dude has a 20 gb project and the rest of us need to be treated like him?
This is a reasonable feature. Its use should be a USER decision.
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