Hi,
i was just working in CAM with an unsaved design (just copied over some components from another design) when Fusion suddenly crashed. After restart i wasn't offered a crash recovery file and the design of course wasn't saved.
I guess this has not happened intentionally, right?
Frank
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You are right Helmi, this should have happened intentionally. I am assuming that the crash recovery dialog has always poped up for you whenever you restarted after a crash?
Hi Frank,
Even unsaved (unnamed) files should get auto-saved, and so you should have received the crash recovery message after a restart. If you send me your log file(s) from around the time you experienced the problem, I can take a look. As you might know, backups are taken every 5 minutes. So, if the crash happened within 5 minutes of you dirtying the file, it is possible the backup hadn't happen yet. Still, the log file can give us some hints as to what might have happened.
Here are the locations for the log files:
Windows: C:\Users\<windows-id>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Autodesk Fusion 360\<12 characters cloud id folder>/Logs/
MAC: ~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion 360/<12 characters cloud id folder>/Logs/
MAC App Store: ~/Library/Containers/com.autodesk.mas.fusion360/Data/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion 360/<12 characters cloud id folder>/Logs/
Thanks
Ahsan
Thanks for the log files Frank. By looking at them, I can tell that we indeed tried to auto-save the "Untitled" document many times (14 times to be exact), after every minute or so. However, there was either a command running on the document, or there was some other dialog up, such as the Preferences dialog, and this prevented the auto-save to happen on that document. Whenever a command is running on a document, we assume that the user is actively changing the document's data, and temporarily disable auto-save. This is to prevent any half-baked data to get accidentally written off to disk.
BTW, if auto-save doesn't happen for about half an hour or so, we do show a warning to the user, and suggest that he immediately do a manual save. You probably didn't see this because, apparently, the application crashed within 20 minutes of you changing the new document.
Regarding your suggestion of offering buttons directly on the recovery notification, we'll discuss it internally, and consider it for a future release. Thanks for the suggestion. We clearly need to make the recovery notifications more visible.
Regards,
Ahsan