Save?

[glorybound]

When I hit render, my model saves first. I have autosave set up for every 30 minutes. But, when things crash the only thing I have is when I manually hit save. Why the heck am I waiting 1 1/2 minutes for the autosaves when it is doing absolutely nothing!

[Pixelcon]

Because you dont know about the autoback folder??

[glorybound]

yes I do.

[Raven]

Hey Bobby

Are the autoback files there?
When you try open them are they corrupt?

[Jorq1H]

Are you on a network windows account? The autobac is written within the user/username/3dsmax/ folder which can be a problem on network domains. I had to redirect the entire projects folder to a different place on the HDD to be able to write the autobac's. The ini-file with which you can change this setting is located in Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2014 - 64bit\ENU or whatever version of max you have installed.

[glorybound]

interesting and good to know. My project data folder has my incremental backups, but not those auto ones. I am on a domain, so I will look into it. Thanks.

[glorybound]

I don't remember the file auto-saving when I hit render. Does it always do that? Maybe I have never noticed.

[kosso_olli]

The file is only saved before rendering when DR is enabled. That saved scene gets distributed to the nodes.

[glorybound]

gotcha. I guess when you are trying to shave every second, which is the name of this game, you realize where time is coming from. Each time I stop/start, it takes 1 1/2 minutes to save.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

gotcha. I guess when you are trying to shave every second, which is the name of this game, you realize where time is coming from. Each time I stop/start, it takes 1 1/2 minutes to save.

Consider using xreds and referencing as much as you can in ur scene... I got my scenes to weight around 1-2 mb and its very fast to work this way...

[glorybound]

xref's and proxies generally render slower for me, so I am not sure it is worth it. I have enough RAM, so I rarely have to use proxies.

Consider using xreds and referencing as much as you can in ur scene... I got my scenes to weight around 1-2 mb and its very fast to work this way...

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

xref's and proxies generally render slower for me, so I am not sure it is worth it. I have enough RAM, so I rarely have to use proxies.

That strange... it should render just as fast but with maybe less ram in use.

[davexl]

One other thing to look at is File Compression - Compress on Save.

I used to use it because it effectively zips things, and saves file about a third or a quarter of the size of without. Trouble is it takes significant time to do this. Nowdays I just take the hit on disk space, as saving to an SSD is vastly faster.

A scene that is 300MB saves in 6 seconds uncompressed, and takes 18 seconds when compressed down to 80mb.

[glorybound]

Yes. I do compress on save. I'll turn that off and see it helps. Thanks

One other thing to look at is File Compression - Compress on Save.

I used to use it because it effectively zips things, and saves file about a third or a quarter of the size of without. Trouble is it takes significant time to do this. Nowdays I just take the hit on disk space, as saving to an SSD is vastly faster.

A scene that is 300MB saves in 6 seconds uncompressed, and takes 18 seconds when compressed down to 80mb.