AutoSave

AutoSave and Recovery in 0.9

AutoSave files are now handled differently. They are all stored in a single Grasshopper autosave folder (accessible via the Grasshopper File→Special Folders→AutoSave menu). The name of each autosave file is a hash of the original filename+location and therefore not humanly readable (4F00D542-B800-8BA6-9811-AE7CEC6DD16C.gh for example).

When a new file is opened and a matching autosave file is found in the AutoSave folder, a message will pop up offering this information along with three options:

1. You can choose to open the autosave file instead of the original file, this will not overwrite the original file until the file is saved for the first time. Basically, the autosave file *thinks* it is the original file.
2. You can also save the autosave file under a different name, after which the original file is opened. This is obviously the safest approach, as no data is lost or in danger of being overwritten.
3. Ultimately, you can choose to ignore the autosave file and just open the original file. In this last case the autosave file is actually moved into the recycle bin before a new autosave file would overwrite it, so it is not in fact lost forever.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia