I was working on a sketchup model for 3+ hours and one time that I forgot to save my work there was a sudden power loss in the office. Usually when I open sketchup again, it gives the option to recover the file, though this time it didn’t. Therefore I checked the autosave folder and again no luck with that, the file I was working on wasn’t there, even though my auto-save setting is switched on at 1 minute. Please help, the model I was working on is very valuable.
auto save kicks in once you’ve saved the file somewhere once.
if it crashes and you never saved it somewhere first, no matter how short the timing is, no autosave.
and 1min is really really short. I’m using a 15min increment.
the thing is that I’ve had it saved on a server and opened it from there and normally that saves if it crashes. I thought having it at 1 minute is better for higher chance of saving the file.
That’s generally not advised. If the power loss affected your server before your computer the connection would have been broken. You should be downloading the file from the server to an internal drive folder to work on it and so that autosaves are done locally. Copy the file to your server after you’ve saved it for the day.
You could also use your Trimble Connect storage to save incremental backups as you are working.
Oh I see so that is mainly because of the server, as that was not saved locally prior to the power loss. So to summarise, the file that I was working on cannot be recovered?
The auto save file is created in the same directory as the .skp file. So if you’re working on a remotely saved model file, the autosave file won’t be created on your computer.
We don’t know that although it’s probable. Did you look on the server for the backup version? It’ll have the same file name as the working file but with a ~ at the end. Maybe that file is viable.
I did have a look on the server, but couldn’t find anything.
At this point I guess I would start over on the project. Save the file on the internal drive on your computer. And since you have a Pro subscription for SketchUp, take advantage of the unlimited Trimble Connect storage that is included. Save the file to that storage in addition to saving it locally. Every time you save the file to Trimble Connect it creates an incremental save, too. If you have some need to go back to an earlier version of the file, you can get it from Trimble Connect.
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Noted on that, appreciate your help, thank you Dave.
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This isn’t quite right. The backup file only exists when you do your second save, but the auto save happens even on an untitled, never saved file.
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really ? I knew for the backup file, I always thought you needed to save first to start the autosave…
I can think of at least a couple times when I deliberately crashed my SU file after a couple hours of class (to show a bugsplat) and SU didn’t offer me to reopen my file. It probably strengthen my belief.