I am hoping someone here may be able to help…. I seem to have lost lots of my recent work due to this new autosave, and the lack of any preserved autosaves after a restart (Mac OS). SketchUp was “hanging” for a really long time, and it seems to have slowed the entire machine, so it was time to restart, which included Force Quit for SketchUp . After the restart, there are no Recovered Files nor autosaved files to be found whatsoever. And after reading all posts here, I understand that this is now the intended way? Why? I never have had any problems in this situation before, as the autosaves were always there in the hidden Library folder… Now the Autosave subfolder is not used anymore? It is placed there during installation, but just to sit empty? Is that what you are saying?
Then why is this text still being offered to users from help.sketchup.com (link : Setting Software and File Preferences | SketchUp Help) • If you’re a macOS user, you find the file in the following folder: ~User/Library/Application Support/SketchUp Version /SketchUp/Autosave. On recent versions of macOS, the Library folder is hidden, so you must make the folder visible before you can find your auto-saved file.
And the actual new location for any autosaves is only being revealed here, in a forum thread?
I did access the supposed recovered files location using the Ruby console (#{Sketchup.temp_dir}"/SKETCHUP/RecoveredFiles). Not only there was nothing there after the restart, and but I was headed to further frustration. I do have Time Machine set up, so I thought I would only need to locate the private/var/folder in the backups, and there would be some recovered files there (since my AutoSave is set to every 5 mins), from some time earlier in the day. But no such luck. Turns out, Time Machine does not back up the content of this folder that I need (the RecoveredFiles would sit under a subfolder named “T” - for temporary, and this subfolder is not backed up by Time Machine, along with other temp folders that it does not back up).
So - and trying hard not to sound too frustrated here, I have two questions: why was this change to where autosaves are placed done so quietly in the new version? I can see that I’m not the only who lost work due to this important but not well-announced change. And second, why would the developers pick a location for the autosaves that would ensure no trace of them would be found after a restart that includes a SketchUp force quit? What was wrong with the previously used Autosave subfolder? I would have been able to recover files from there in my Time Machine backups, if nothing else. But now I can’t.
Or maybe I misunderstood the points made in this thread, and there is still hope for me to find my lost “recovered files”? It would certainly be lovely if that was the case. Please let me know if I missed anything, and I certainly hope to get answers to my questions from the SketchUp team members, would be much appreciated.