Affinity Designer needs to fix it's autorecovery and autosaving

[odoug04]

I feel like Affinity really needs to improve their auto-recovery and autosaving into their programs. I can rely on almost every other program to open up a file after a crash or recover lost work but not Affinity designer. Application or computer crash after you haven't saved in a while? welp, that's 3 hours of work you can't get back. I've had multiple instances where either the app or my computer has crashed and there isn't even a hint at some kind of 'application didn't close properly would you like to open this back up'  it's just straight into the opening screen like nothing happened. Now don't get me wrong I love Affinity's software I think it's miles ahead of the competition, but even Adobe with their poor optimization and buggy apps can figure out how to autosave and recover lost work if something goes wrong. This needs to be fixed, is anyone else experiencing this?

[carl123]

24 minutes ago, odoug04 said:

Application or computer crash after you haven't saved in a while? well, that's 3 hours of work you can't get back.

Not doing a "save" in 3 hours of work is a fault of the user not the programmers.

27 minutes ago, odoug04 said:

 This needs to be fixed, is anyone else experiencing this? 

No, not if they understand the need to periodically save their work and not rely on some computer code to get them out of trouble when they fail to do so. 

[odoug04]

20 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Not doing a "save" in 3 hours of work is a fault of the user not the programmers.

No, not if they understand the need to periodically save their work and not rely on some computer code to get them out of trouble when they fail to do so. 

I understand that people should not rely on safety systems like this and I was merely just giving an example however that's a bit like saying cars shouldn't have reverse sensors because drivers know they're not supposed to crash into things.

[carl123]

4 minutes ago, odoug04 said:

however that's a bit like saying cars shouldn't have reverse sensors because drivers know they're not supposed to crash into things. 

Cars have airbags to protect you in the event of a crash but only a fool would not try to avoid a crash in the first place

[Alfred]

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Affinity Designer need's to fix it's autorecovery and autosaving

The creator of this thread needs to fix its title.

[odoug04]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Cars have airbags to protect you in the event of a crash but only a fool would not try to avoid a crash in the first place

only trying to point out that I think Affinity designer has faulty 'seatbelts' and it would save a lot of headaches if they were fixed 

[Pšenda]

5 hours ago, odoug04 said:

is anyone else experiencing this?

No, since I started working on the PC (about 30 years) I have created a reflex - squeezing Ctrl + S on every occasion.

Affinity has no "autosave" mechanism, it only has autorecovery. This saves only the increment that was created/done from the saved file, compared to saving the entire work. The autorecovery file therefore requires a complete previous saved file, which can sometimes be a problem (if it be stored for example on an external / network drive). 

I think that Autosave function would be useful.