So there clearly is an issue, does anyone know if they (sketchup folks) are willing to address this issue?
and or acknowledge that it is clearly not working?

I have what I think are the appropriate boxes checked, i.e. autosave every 5 minutes,.... yet I come to my work this morning, computer crashed over the night and my work has not been "autosaved" ... in times past I could go to library, application support, google sketchup 8, (now I do not find layout in that folder only sketchup?)
I am on a mac OS 10.6.8
any ideas?
aloha
red

an earlier post got no replies, I try again...
I have crashed before, found that my layout files typically were fairly intact, could find them either in relaunch or in my hard drive, library, application support, layout files or in the folder that the original file was saved into...
but I had a crash this morning, and work that had been saved... from my perspective... from last night, and certainly should typically been AUTOSAVED... was no where to be found..
I had one untypical situation going on, I had my scrapbook "edit" open and was adding arch. symbols to it from current pages I was working on... i.e. a detail symbol that would be added to the scrap book and I could quickly grab it to add to a relevant view on another page as a reference. I was actively doing that with 6-8 pages open... crash... all of my previous work was lost... nothing found upon relaunch of "recent" files in layout, in the proper file location (typically where layout saves my "auto-save" files... or even "searching" in my library/application support/Layout/ auto save locations...
Lost was my work on the "edit" scrapbook, and hours of work on my actual layout pages...
I have followed Saunder's perspective and created a single file for each page (or series of similar pages, i.e. two pages of elevations)...
Does anyone have any idea where the "auto-save" files might be? (my auto save is on 5 min.), if this is a bug or is this what happens when you open up the scrapbook for editing?
thanks
aloha
red

Okay, thanks again for the suggestions, I got the "hole in solid" plugin, tried it,
and do not seem to understand how to make it work, have I installed it wrong?
highlight it, click the icon, and get no results
is there something else I need to do?
I know this will work but not got this figured out yet.
thanks
aloha
red

Thanks for the reply and solution to the basic issue,
now how to do the same with two components of various shapes
I do the "intersect faces with model" but it does not "cut or slice" the model like a plane does. As seen in the image, the lines of the pipe component remain uncut and cannot be separated / deleted like with a plane cut.
In this case that is okay as the joining surface is flat, typical to most of my needs, but in a multi faced situation it would seem best if the faces of one component could "cut or slice" into the faces of the other component.
I can get an intersection via bool tools, but not seemingly understanding on how to cut with a multi-face component.
thanks again, hopefully this is all not too silly and simple but thanks for the time and insights.
aloha
red

This issue I have yet to clearly resolve or understand its solution. Duh.
Probably really simple.. but here I go
got three steel component parts from the warehouse as I am making a structural frame.
I want to "slice a plane thru one of the components so that I can weld it onto the other two..
seems simple enough.
I have a few plugins, booltools, zorro, and slicer to aid in this process...
not quite getting the results I need..Joining knee to beam and post.pdf
I know this is ELEMENTARY
Yes, but still not got the solution
thanks for any help or insights
aloha
red

Duh, okay, something as simple as pulling down the window tab on the lower right corner expands the choices... and I could reinstall my lost font...
thanks for the time and insights.
aloha
red

Yes, checked my font book, tekton pro is located in it... here is a pic ...
and I do not see the name "family" (in my Fonts in Layout) in my Font book...
shouldn't layout be able to access ALL the fonts in my font book?

I tried quitting and restarting... still have lost my major Tekton Pro font... any ideas?

LayOut has worked fine for years... now I lost my access to fonts... and cannot find out what happened? Tried window/show fonts/ and all of the options within this menu...
these should all be within my Mac Font Book... why would this just be gone?
thanks
aloha
red