* BugSplat *

SketchUp
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Welcome to my world! :anguished:

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Workflow should be:

  • (Iā€™m going to model ā€œblablabla-objectā€) Draw a simple entity
  • ā€˜Save asā€™ ā€œblablabla-objectā€
  • now start the actual modeling
  • apply autosave or manually save regularly.

Never leave your model unsaved too long.

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Workflow is:

  • (Iā€™m going to model ā€œblablabla-objectā€)
  • draw a simple entity that is completely wrong in every way
  • rage at it until I realize I have the photo upside down
  • start the actual modeling, because the previous six hours of drawing was just a warm up
  • break out in cold sweat on realizing I havenā€™t saved yet
  • watch as the little blue circle goes 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round, before the application vanishes, followed by ā€œz0mFglololol BugSplat! for you, loser!ā€
  • Google ā€œmonasteries with vacanciesā€
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Youā€™re not alone in not following "Workflow should be: ā€¦ " or the like. Iā€™ve been there too.

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If you have auto save turned on, copies of your Untitled.skp should be in this folder:

%LocalAppData%\SketchUp\SketchUp 2022\SketchUp\working\SKETCHUP\RecoveredFiles\

The auto save file should only be deleted after a successful save. It also should appear in the welcome screen when you restart SketchUp, but note that it starts with a U, you may have to scroll down the list to find it.

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Heh. Yeah. ā€œAutosave.ā€

Nope, I disabled it a long time ago. :crazy_face:

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We donā€™t seem to have the conventional meaning for ā€œauto saveā€, but at times like this it would have been useful.

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As would me remembering to save at least once before wasting hours and hours drawing. :grin:

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Trying setting a timer.

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The problem is the auto saves always seems to occur at the least convenient moment possible.

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No, noā€“Set a timer on your phone or your computerā€™s clock app and use that to save manually. (To help you remember to save.)

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Now thatā€™s a very fine idea.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA ā€“ REBUILT! (Not quite 100 percent though.)

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Suck on that, BugSplat!

And considering itā€™s stainless steel, sucking on it would be pretty unpleasant indeed.

Also, before you grizzled veteran SketchUp Pros say ā€œThatā€™s what you were whining about?!ā€, bear in mind the fact something like this represents approximately eleven bajillionty metric shitt-tons of effort for us one-trick-pony amateurs.

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Especially in subzero (Celsius) temperatures it is worse than a bugsplat.

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In that case we ought to say ā€œstucking on itā€.

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