Is there a simple Auto-Save?

[chrisb]

So, I have to do more work to fix something I don't want and can't get a better option considered fairly. Why is there always a push-back from suggestions for making improvements to FC? I simply asked "is there."

The reason why there are often suggestions even if you have already an answer is quite simple: You didn't hire the helpers as personals trainers for some 150$ per hour. So they give advice to you and to others who may have a similar but not identical question.

[MikeDewitt]

This would auto save every delay_in_seconds, which can be changed from the default of 60. Hold down Shift key while executing to stop the timer and no longer auto save.

That works exceptionally well. Thanks for some calm sanity here.

[MikeDewitt]

You had a real answer in the first two posts - there is no such mechanism as you requested

No, I did not get a real answer. I opened the OP with

Hi, I do not want to use the Auto-Recovery-Save

and simply reiterating what I do NOT want does NOT make it an answer.

Moot point as TheMarkster kindly provided me with the Python Script to do what **I** was asking about and it works perfectly.

[GeneFC]

I have no interest is joining the argument one way or the other.

However, I am curious. I just have the default auto-save setttings, and I have never seen any of these ghost files? I don't "clean" anything either.

Where would one look to find these files?

Gene

[chrisb]

Where would one look to find these files?

Quite some time ago I changed the default path to something else in EditParameters->BaseApp->General->TempPath, but I'm not sure if the parameter is listed at all if it is left on default.
The reason why I changed it, was that the files were stored in the system default Temp directory. My computer had rather frequent power dropouts, which wouldn't have been a serious problem, because I had these backup files made every two minutes. Alas, the Temp directory which was cleaned on startup ...

[chrisb]

According to a post from TheMarkster they live on Windows in appdata/local/temp, see https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=38598. (Still searching for the post where Werner told me about the parameter.)

[kisolre]

One of the auto recovery folders with some leftovers in it:

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C:\Users\_User_\AppData\Local\Temp\FreeCAD_Doc_7da845fc-0613-4c01-894d-b652f0518947_d0cdcd_3676

[GeneFC]

I occasionally see a file or two in the autorecovery folder, after a crash. But I have never seen a batch of autosave files. The program says it is autosaving periodically during normal operation, but those files either are not really created or they are killed when I save and exit.

Strange.

Gene