[Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-26 Thread gandalf3
I often end up searching through a small heap of auto-save files trying to find the one for the file on which I was working. Sorting by modification time doesn't always work, as I often have multiple instances of blender running (and any one of them could have saved) It seems like it shouldn't b

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-26 Thread Jacob Merrill
What about something that you can check so it will save a revision (like up to x revisions ) before anything hefty engages? Like before bake, or render or cache baking fire etc? On Dec 26, 2014 11:08 PM, "gandalf3" wrote: > I often end up searching through a small heap of auto-save files trying >

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-27 Thread gandalf3
Hm.. I'm not sure it would be very useful. Seems like it would be a bit of a trick to decide what operations are "crash capable". For me at least, Blender hardly ever crashes while rendering or baking (or at all for that matter :D), whenever it *does* happen it seems like it's some spontaneous

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-27 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Yeah, naming the auto save files in an easy to recognize way will help. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford On Dec 27, 2014 7:08 AM, "gandalf3" wrote: I often end up searching through a small heap of auto-save files trying to find the one for the file on which I was working. Sorting by modifica

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-27 Thread Jason van Gumster
IIRC this feature was committed in master not too long ago (just over a month or so): https://developer.blender.org/rBba872f022cd40d3ff9f2314830dcac5204a6c506 I just checked with 2.73 and it works fine for me. Is that what you're looking for? -Jason Nkansah Rexford wrote: > Yeah, naming the

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-27 Thread gandalf3
Wow, that's great, thanks! :D The devs are so fast they add features *before* they are requested ;) On 12/27/14 11:59, Jason van Gumster wrote: > IIRC this feature was committed in master not too long ago (just over a month > or > so): https://developer.blender.org/rBba872f022cd40d3ff9f2314830dca

Re: [Bf-committers] Naming of auto save files

2014-12-29 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Awesome. Thanks for the fix On Saturday, December 27, 2014, gandalf3 wrote: > Wow, that's great, thanks! :D > The devs are so fast they add features *before* they are requested ;) > > On 12/27/14 11:59, Jason van Gumster wrote: > > IIRC this feature was committed in master not too long ago (jus