Weird Auto-Save
First i have t say that i m in love with musescore and im glad that I divorce Finale. You people really made a great work on this.
I just discovered thanks to Jojo-Schmitz that auto-save works in a misterious way. You set it, and it auto-saves a file that have the auto-saved data, in a separate place, that in case of crash you couldn't save in the original file. And if the program crashes you restore the session. But i didn't know that, and i double click my saved file and nothing was auto saved.
There´s an auto-save and i'm glad that at least there is one way to survive but I think that it would be very usefull to have the original file rewrited in the auto-save or the auto-saved file stored in the same place that the original file is. I think in finale was a temporary file stored in the same place and dissapear when you save and close the program.
I happen to use the same files in different computers, so when i pick up the file i go (obviusly) to my original file. Also, the little star is always on (*) if there are unsaved changes, so its a little bit confusing because if it's on, it isn't saved, and if you have to save it, it isn´t a auto-save. I think perhaps its the name, i think this is more an auto-backup than an auto-save.
Thank you
Comments
Hmm, yes, auto-backup might indeed a better name for it.
For others to get the context see #295146: auto save doesnt working
In reply to Hmm, yes, auto-backup might… by Jojo-Schmitz
It's not really much help to me that you confirm that the name could be wrong Jojo-Schmitz. Also it's misleading that when it crash appears that dialog box to restore the session, because its not restoring the session it is opening the auto-backuped file.
In reply to It's not really much help to… by Omnimusico
After a crash it does recover a session, which autosaved files (!) are as part of.
And nobod wants a real autosave, i.e. having the active open file getting overwritten at certain intervals, there is a dialog telling you about unsaved changes and gives you the choice when closing a score or exiting MuseScore. Again: autosave is just for the purpose of being able to recover from crashes (of MuseScore or the computer).
In reply to It's not really much help to… by Omnimusico
It's also remembering which scores you had open, and other things about the state of the program at the moment of the crash. So in any sense I can think of that one could possibly mean by this, it is restoring the session - including the state of your scores at the time of the crash.
There shouldn't be anything particular mysterious about autosave, it's really quite similar to how very many other programs work. If thinking of it as autobackup helps you understand, great, but it's better for us to use the standard terminology for this.
In reply to There shouldn't be anything… by Marc Sabatella
Perhaps its just an opinion. But if i don't manually save ,(with "auto-save" enabled) the program ask when I'm closing, do you want to save changes? It's mean for me that it is not saved.
In reply to Perhaps its just an opinion… by Omnimusico
True, it's not saved into your copy of the file, but it was saved somewhere. Your opinion of the use of the word asiude, it is pretty standard/common. I've also seen it called "autorecover" I guess, but "autosave" seems the most common usage in my experience. I think cloud-based programs that don't have a separate concept of saving to a file anyhow may use the term in a historical unusual way, maybe that's what you are more used to.
In reply to True, it's not saved into… by Marc Sabatella
Yeah I think thats it "it is saved somewhere" so, in a way it is autosaved, but a i didn,t read the manual so it was just a total guess. And i supossed, perhaps mistaken, that it could be saved in the original file. It is just another experience that generate another opinion. I totally change my way of writing music in a computer when I start using Musescore and I love it, im not even expecting that it works like another sofware familiar to me. I Think that if you see things in your way you're absolutely right, and if you see it with my eyes, perhaps i could be right too. I'm just another user, and it happen to be very counfusing to me all that I have stated in this post.
In reply to Perhaps its just an opinion… by Omnimusico
Indeed, it is not. And autosave won't even help in that case, as on an ordinary close that autosave file (should) get(s) deleted (if not, that'd be a bug)