Just Spent Four Hours in the Editor... | Forums

[rlmergeuser]

...Without saving, and the game crashed.

...What's the best way to destroy my Xbox?

I was thinking of doing a "will it blend"?

[Euphoric Fusion]

Roll one up, chill, start over. That's what I did. Well maybe not one.
Needless to say I save more often now.

[rlmergeuser]

Take it out to an empty field. Crank some rap music on the boombox. Beat it with a baseball bat.

[mutetus]

I always save my tracks every 30 minutes with running numbers like track1, track2, track3 etc. That was after I spent one day making a track and got "load error" after saving my track with the same name over and over again.

[Lukeyy19]

I was working on my track for about 3 hours last night, only for it to crash, and now I'm having to redo it tonight.

Wish there was an autosave feature you could turn on in the editor settings.

[rlmergeuser]

After the first time this happened to me, I started saving every 5-10 minutes, or before almost every test run.

I save mostly to just one file, but after every few hours I save a backup version of it.

[rlmergeuser]

4 hours without saving? Sheesh. Ya know, you don't gain any bonus points for working a certain span of time without saving! It really sucks that it crashed like that, but I don't think I can sympathise much since it was your own fault you failed to save!

Save often. Save every 5-10 minutes. Save before every Test. Save after every edit you're satisfied with.

Software breaks all the time! Anyone using computers for creative work in a professional environment knows it's risky to even go 15 minutes without saving their work know, you're just doing this in your home, but... JUST SAYING!)

[rlmergeuser]

I save after every single successful object/trigger/ect placement/implementation. So I basically save every 2-5 minutes

[Ajuvix]

Don't just save frequently to the same file, save a backup copy too. In TrialsHD, I once spent about 30 hours on a track. I was all but done when I tried to save and the file corrupted. I was devastated. I woke up the next morning and vowed to recreate it as best I could. It turned out better than the original, since I was able to polish the original ideas. So go back and recreate what you have lost better than before and be glad you only lost 4 hours.

[Ajuvix]

I save mostly to just one file, but after every few hours I save a backup version of it.

I hate to double post, but I cannot stress enough how important this is.