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I am new to Revit in the last couple of months, coming from AutoCAD. I have only been able to find a save reminder interval under options, but is there an actual auto save function? I am working from a local file on my desktop instead of the central file, where I've seen backups formed during work without saving. However, when I looked back to where the central file is located, there were no back ups saved... and a backup folder associated with my local file on my desktop only has some .dat and .rws files from when I actually save... so no record of the 2 hours I lost today. Highly frustrating.
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No, there is no actual autosave. Saving takes awhile, so it'd be confusing and disruptive if it happened unannounced, I imagine. Revit does a pretty good job at prompting you to save before performing actions with a highened risk of crashing. I have my save reminder set to 30 minutes. However, I have never lost more than 10 minutes of work, because the "backup" that revit volunteers to create after a soft crash contains 100% of the information I need, despite the suspiciously smaller file size than the original. I always accept an offer to make a backup. Reminder frequency and default save locations can be modified.
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I set my local save reminder to 15 minutes and my central save to 1 hour, and with very few exceptions (I will occasionally skip a save to central if I'm in the middle of something complex) save when prompted. I've never had a problem with not having an autosave. I'm pretty certain a new backup file is made with every save (local and central), so if you lost two hours of work there is either something going wrong that you need to look into, or you didn't save for two hours. Autosave in ACAD was something I always had a love/hate relationship with. Auto backups are good, interrupting my drafting at inopportune times is bad. Eventually I just shut it off and got in the habit of hitting Alt-S often.
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I do have the reminders set up, and I do usually hit save often. That day, however, I was modifying a complex object and was in the middle of teaching myself how to do it, so I didn't think to save yet. The way it closed was odd too... I was selecting some lines and the thing just closed without warning or question. I think it may have to do with our computers here... Revit could be too much for them to handle?
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I have a decent computer and that has happened to me as well. Revit is usually pretty good about letting you save if it crashes, but every now and again you'll still get the old AutoCAD "Whoops, hope you saved recently because it's all gone now" kind of crash.
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We have released iSync for Revit that does autosave of changes when the session is idle. It also does auto-reload, auto-renlinquish and auto-exit. For more details and free trial please have a look on the product detail page indicated under:
https://www.archigrafix.com/isync_features
Edited on: Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:33:34 PM
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