Re: Backup

I totally agree Jim, it does feel like a very backward step. My old Fast 601/Silver had a 'save all the time' feature - I remember seeing a demo where, in the middle of editing, the guy pulled the plug out of the workstation. Five minutes later, booted up he was back to exactly the point when the plug got pulled. I never lost a thing editing on the Fast. We've not come a long way since. Apple should have given the option for added flexibility in where and when Autosave does it's thing, it's too much to assume everyone has a Time Machine drive attached.

Hence my reasoning for going old school in terms of backups - its a reflex action born of paranoia from years of experiencing crashes from all sorts of NLEs on all platforms. I'd say that FCP7 was the most stable of all NLEs I've used in terms of corruption and crashing, and prior to 10.0.4, X took me right back to the bad old days of regular crashing and potential data loss. Kind of like a bad flashback, only this time it was Media Composer circa 1996 ish rather than the jungles of 'Nam. I have to say it's better now though, and I hope Apple are making rock solid stability a priority.

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