Suggestion for the developers on Design File Saving

[tgioiosa]

The cloud-based file management in Fusion has now become a severe bottleneck for me as I start creating and using very large designs. It is downright painful to save large designs of 100-300Mbytes.
By default when you hit the 'save' icon the file saves to the cloud and takes several minutes, when all you want to do is make an ongoing backup so you don't lose everything when Fusion crashes. That really slows down your work flow.

Consider that most ISP's only provide 10Mbps upload speeds (unless you're lucky enough to have fiber connection). That comes to roughly 1 Mega Byte per second. A 180MB design takes over 3 minutes at that speed.

My suggestion to the Fusion developers is to please provide the option to not save to the cloud every time you hit the 'save' icon. Instead, let me save to local disk while I am making frequent design changes, and then when I am done working with the file, let me choose to save to the cloud.

Or maybe provide a 'sync' button that would update the cloud version of the design at points that I choose.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

You could use a Recovery Save, which is local, by pressing the Ctrl+Shift+S key (Windows) for all intermediate saves and then use the regular Save function to add your file to the Cloud.  If you need the intermediate model, it can be recovered from you local drive.

Edit: Consult this website for further information.

[Jim.Swain]

John - 100% correct. Still, the idea of having a local save icon has its merits.

Jim