Fusion crushed and I lost my whole project

stricer · ‎03-06-2021

I just downloaded fusion today and started working in it. I made couple of hours project and at the very end fusion suddenly stopped responding. It didnt react to anything, while alt-tabbing some of the program graphic stayed on the screen while rest was gone and I could see my desktop. I forced program close and reopened it really expecting to get at most 5 min setback. Recovery time interval was set to 5 min since it was very first thing I checked. Yet my project was totally gone. No recent documents, no history, no even any kind of recovery pop up window after running the program again after crush. How is that possible? How is possible that you can lost hours of work in the cloud based program? Do you even know how cloud programs suppose to work? Do you heard about Google Docs? Have you ever seen MS Word? Even stupid word DOES save your files multiple times as you go since like 10 years!!! Where is my project and how to restore it?

The most funny thing is my good friend was talking me into buying fusion since its so so good. Well its my first contact with fusion and i have to say its utmost unplesant.

daniel_lyall · ‎03-06-2021

Did you save and name the file as the first thing you did?

TheCADWhisperer · ‎03-07-2021

@stricer wrote:
I made couple of hours project...
How is possible that you can lost hours of work in the cloud based program?

I never ever lose more than 5 minutes of work.

I save every 5 minutes or so.

Done so for 30 years. Never loose more work than I am willing to do over.

My students made me a t-shirt.

the reverse side says - SAVE IT!

I just got this email response from someone looking to replace one of my former students...

"I know, I got lucky with a.b.c.

In his first few weeks, he put a post-it note on his monitor with the quote:

‘Did something right? Save it!’ –Dr. JD Mather

It became a mantra for few project teams, I’ll leave it for the next person."

stricer · ‎03-07-2021

I imported a program, changed it and saved it. Then I started new one worked on it for hours without saving. I dont have to save new document in word, also dont have to save new document in google. And as those programs fusion suppose to save EVERY 5 MINUTES!!! After fusion crashed both project where gone. My unsaved one and the previous one already changed and saved one. If no one has nothing to add smarted then "did u save" then my opinion about both the fusion program and his support going to be set to horse waste.

davebYYPCU · ‎03-07-2021

Open fusion, and then open the Data Panel, Click on the 9 square icon,

You should have My Recent Data in your panel, open that and tell us what is there.

Might help....

daniel_lyall · ‎03-07-2021

It was a question as people don't realize you have to hit save first to start the autosave now you know.

stricer · ‎03-07-2021

Why would you have to hit save to START autosave feature? Its absolutely idiotic. How stupid the programers have to be to implement autosave just after you save yourself? This doesnt have any sens or logic. But if thats the case then my episode with fusion just ended.
dave - im not an idiot. Im not hating tho, from the "help" im getting here so far I assume most of the people you deal with here are morons. Im not one of them. I already searched every possible solutuion I could find and tried everything I found. Obviously checked all way of recovering data implemented in fusion as well as searched all the catalog it should be in. With obviously no luck.
And I just want to mention that I already made my model again. It wasnt hard and done it much faster then the first time. Fusion is really easy. Unfortunetly its unreliable. And I can not risk introducing such unpolished piece of software into my company. If what daniel wrote is true then beside really nice interface fusion is just badly made/written. Shame.

davebYYPCU · ‎03-07-2021

from the "help" im getting here so far I assume most of the people you deal with here are morons. Im not one of them,

No just Newbies, who may not know where to look.

Might help others....

daniel_lyall · ‎03-07-2021

You can take the help and questions however you want, but save and name then start component name it and hit save again then away you go.

Not everyone knows how it works in other programs or in fusion and we don't really know what someone else knows so working from we don't know what you know.

TheCADWhisperer · ‎03-08-2021

@stricer wrote:
And I can not risk introducing such unpolished piece of software into my company.

Back to the drawing board.

carl.j.barker · ‎03-08-2021

I Believe Fusion does start to recovery save even without a main save. I just forced closed to test and it popped a recovery window on restart. I do know it won't do the save while you're editing a sketch or using a tool, no idea how long it needs to be idle before it attempts again.

g-andresen · ‎03-08-2021

Hi,

@stricer wrote:
so far I assume most of the people you deal with here are morons.

Then you should quickly disappear from this circle, otherwise you run the risk of becoming one too.

günther

stricer · ‎03-17-2021

You are exactly the person I was talking about, thank you for making my point rock solid 🙂