Resetting sketchup

Ands43

It is not a specific file as it happens to any drawing. I could turn off autosave, but why?

Frederik

@tails said:

I could turn off autosave, but why?

@unknownuser said:

try turning off the automatic save feature, it may not be the total answer to crashes, but it will help

sketch3d.de

@tails said:

I'm working on and imac...

you may want test, if disabling "Window > Settings/Configuration (dunno?) > OpenGL > Hardware Acceleration..." improves stability... if yes, the OGL support of the video driver causes the problem.

hth,
Norbert

jeff hammond

the thing about the autosave off 'fix' is that it still doesn't prevent crashes.. so, when sketchup crashes, i still want to recover the file when possible.

if it were simply -- turn off autosave and sketchup won't crash then yeah, that's a good recommendation but really, it's not the best advice in the world..

Vicspa

@frederik said:

@tails said:

I could turn off autosave, but why?

@unknownuser said:

try turning off the automatic save feature, it may not be the total answer to crashes, but it will help

I can only speak from my experience on my PC.
I believe the default auto save is set for every 5 minutes, and this would interfere with I was doing and crash on me.
Someone suggested to me to turn off this feature, and I have had A LOT LESS crashes, but I do save often, and do not rely on autosave.
Just my 2 cents worth, for something that works for me.

By the way jeff, I never said SP was NOT going to crash on you.

Vicspa

yeah, i know.. i'm not trying to battle or anything.

No battle Jeff, far from it.
SU can be finicky at times, saving often is important, I just feel more comfortable with doing my own savings, and of course getting pissed off when I crash, and I forgot to save.

Vicspa

Then again jeff, my old computer had only 4 megs of memory, and could not keep too many programs open.
But now I got 24 megs, and I'm pretty happy about it.
So SU stays open all day long.
At the moment I'm rendering in kerkythea, photoshopping the renders, and constructing in SU, so far no crashes.

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

the thing is, with autosave being on, i'll sometimes actually be able to recover the file at the same point i was working upon a crash so i keep it on..

but, now that i read myself saying that, (i can only recover some of the time) maybe it's in these instances where autosave is causing the crash??
sometimes, sketchup will crash and i don't get an AutoSave_(Name).skp

hmm...

jeff hammond

wow, i really screw this thread up..

i meant to make a new post that quoted some of what i wrote in my previous response but i ended up editing that post instead..

so, my last post may not make much sense in the threaded order.. sorry.

regardless, maybe autosave is causing 1/2 of my crashes ??

Vicspa

@unknownuser said:

wow, i really screw this thread up..

i meant to make a new post that quoted some of what i wrote in my previous response but i ended up editing that post instead..

so, my last post may not make much sense in the threaded order.. sorry.

regardless, maybe autosave is causing 1/2 of my crashes ??

Jeff, try it with autosave on, and autosave off, and compare the amount of crashes. see which works best for you.
I did that a long time ago, and OFF works best for me. Either way, keep on sketchupping.