Too long to save. Lost work.

[drumnkyle 4]

I was making a document with 11 artboards of images. I added 5 more with changes and then when I got out of the document it was taking multiple minutes to save. So, I quit the app and relaunched and all my 5 artboards are gone. What is taking so long to save? Is it trying to upload it to iCloud? If so, it should save it locally first so I don’t lose it and upload to iCloud in the background. I shouldn’t have to wait that long just to not lose my work. 

[Gabe 1,153]

Hi @drumnkyle,

How big is your document? If you force close the app while it's saving, loss of data is expected. Without knowing more details about your document ( size, size of your images, etc) it's hard to tell what's going on. 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[drumnkyle 4]

I was following the instructions at this site: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Coloring-Book/

I was merging down layers as I did each step and that seemed to take a really long time once I had a few artboards. Then, saving after that took an extremely long time. I did 16 images and the file is over 400 MB and fails to upload. Seems like the file is way too large for that. 

[DM1 1,132]

On 7/28/2019 at 6:57 AM, drumnkyle said:

Is it trying to upload it to iCloud? If so, it should save it locally first so I don’t lose it and upload to iCloud in the background. I shouldn’t have to wait that long just to not lose my work. 

Have you set Saving to 'Local ipad' in Settings? If not, Uploading a 400mb file will take some time depending on your internet connection speeds.