Since older versions of CorelDRAW that I have set the recovery time for Auto-Backup saving time as 3 minutes only, in order to reduce the partial loss of job, when the program crashes.I'm doing a series of small illustrations vectorized (yes, hundreds of them!) and I intend to reduce this time for just 1 (one) minute!This time decreased in 2 minutes (from 3 to 1) can make a difference, because some of these vectors are made fast, and unless those two minutes, I may lose some illustrations if freezing or any other irregular behavior of the software and/or Operating System, though these illustrations are subdivided into several files (simple vectors) and do not consume a lot of RAM.My main question is:
Reducing the time of Auto-Backup for just 1 min is a risk, or how it can affect the performance of the software or OS? Or one thing does not interfere to another?
FosterCoburn said:When I need to save my work, I hit Ctrl + S. Very quick and I can save my work as much or as little as I feel necessary.
I agree, that's the best way. AND this strategy works in almost every other Windows program too.
One of the first things I do on installing is TURN OFF AUTOSAVE. There were just too many instances, early on in my computing life, where it interrupted me at the most inopportune moments. And besides that, I'd heard a few stories on unreliability with it.
The rule I use is "Save as often as you would never want to have to do the work you just did all over again".
And then do your backup of any file (even in the middle of creating it) you would be absolutely loathe to lose. That usually depends, for me, on how difficult it is to create or be creating the file in the first place.
That generally for me is after every major kind of work effort. You define for yourself what a major work effort is.
As a beginner it could be as simple as centering a circle in a rectangle. But then I hate to do even 15 seconds of work over again.So I usually hit Ctrl-S while I'm thinking about what I'm going to do next. This has given me a permanent crook in my pinky finger but that's a small price to pay for almost 100% file integrity assurance. This has the added benefit of accounting for power glitches as I don't use a UPS which I wouldn't rely on anyway.And I often enough do an incremental "Save As" to give me a better than even chance of file recovery in the event of a particular operation or other event corrupting the original file.
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Jeff Harrison said:I agree, that's the best way. AND this strategy works in almost every other Windows program too.
HI.
Yep. I've have to re-enable my Ctrl-S Jitterbug. Tired of losing stuff...
~John
RunFlaCruiser said:Ctrl-S Jitterbug. Tired of losing stuff...
Yeah If you have been doing this stuff for a while the Ctrl-S has become a chronic nervous twitch.
Chris
Me too, I always turn off the Auto-save feature, because it require system resources.. If you increase the frequency of auto-save, you are using a lot of free system resources, creating too much temporary files, and absorb parte of the Virtual Memory of your computer. So, unless to contribute to save your work, the excess of auto-save can be the cause of the crashes. Also, if the time is too short, can cause a conflict when you try to save, export or print. So, the best advices are:
1 - Don't use so frequent autobackup. Use it, at least, since 15 minutes. Or....
2 - Don't use autobackup. After some steps, save. You will control when the program will use the memory, and yu will sure that at this moment there's not any other proces saving in the background
The main question is:
why the crashes happens? The most frequent reason are divided on two groups: relative to CorelDRAW itself and relative to the operating system. A third group is also important: relatives to the ways to use the program.
Relative to CorelDRAW: too much saved views (Ctrl+F2), too much Color Styles (Tools/Color Styles), and/or too much Graphic and Text Styles (Tools/Graphic and Text Styles). If you have one or more of these, delete all
Relative to the operating system: a small swap file for Virtual Memory, too much programs resident on memory, or too much active process. Also, too much temporary files can reduce performance
Relative to the use of the program: too high resolution bitmaps (some people use mire than 2000 dpi, I saw files with almost 10.000 dpi, but is useless, since less than 600 will produce the same result. Sometimes, the problem is when they reduce a 300 dpi image, and has a small photo with big size on Mb ). Too much lens and transparencies, specially when the lens are overlapped. Too much Layers. Convert the Grid or Guides layer as printable.