How to find a autosave file???

It was really terrible that I lost my whole day work. Really thank anyone who can help me figure out this problem: how to find a grasshopper autosave file?

AS My computer crashed one time, I continued my work on an autosave file, and closed just after pressing ctrl+V. What surprised me was that I could not find this autosave file.

I know it was so foolish......

If anyone who know how to solve this problem, please let me knowed!!!!

I really aprreciate your help!!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 20, 2012 at 12:15pm

my autosaves usually go on the desktop

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Permalink Reply by yanwang on April 20, 2012 at 6:19pm

Yeah...I actually could find it just after crashed, but the poor thing is that I continued my work with this autosave and save. Then it disappear from my destop, and I could not find it anywhere.........

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 21, 2012 at 4:38am

Autosave files are deleted when a document is successfully closed or saved. So only when a crash brings down Grasshopper does the autosave file 'survive'. If you then open the original document and proceed to use it, the autosave file will eventually (probably pretty quickly) be overwritten with an autosaved version of the old file. So you really only have one chance to salvage your work, which I admit is somewhat counter to the whole autosave protection scheme.

There's a number of things I can do to improve this:

Instead of deleting autosave files to be overwritten, I can move them to the trashcan or some temp folder (I don't like this as there are typically a lot of autosave files).
When opening a document I can check whether there's an autosave file next to it and warn the user, though this is not 100% either, as the autosave naming scheme may lead to files that are no longer recognizable as autosave files. One way around this would be to change the extension of autosave files.
If a document is opened anew and there's an autosave file detected, that autosave file is not overwritten but moved somewhere safe. (But where so that you can still find it easily?)

Sorry you lost your work despite autosave. We should figure out how to make it less fragile.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia