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Auto save not saving
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Description

System Information
Mac OS 10.9.1, Radeon HD 6870

Blender Version
Broken: (example: 2.69 2014-02-20 05:32, Hash 4789793)
Worked: (optional) Not sure, but I've had problems in earlier versions as well

Short description of error
Autosave doesn't save. It's set to auto save temporary files every 5 minutes. Recover Auto Save menu just brings up an empty folder.

I tried moving from /tmp/ to ~/Documents/Blender temp/ in case it was a permissions problem or the /tmp/ folder getting wiper on boot, but no luck.

Other people on #blender confirmed that autosave works for them, but they were all in Windows so this is potentially a Mac bug. Any Mac users have autosaves working?

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  1. Enable auto saves
  2. Try to recover from auto saves
  3. Redo that thing you were working on because you don't have auto saves

Event Timeline

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I made a test with 2.70RC1 on OSX 10.9.2 and ir worked as expected.
Set autosave to 1min and got an <process_id>.blend every minute.
It appeared in my setup tempdir, where also quit.blend is to be found.

Guess this is a non-issue

Just to avoid misunderstandings:
The tempfile is just a safety net when crashing, if you close it will become
quit.blend and vanish.
If you have a crash or kill blender, then the <process_id>.blend will be preseved,
or exactly said will be not deleted then.

Jens

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Mar 10 2014, 9:50 PM
jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) claimed this task.

Closing this

Jens