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Autosave

Save the project on a timer without touching the timeline, honouring your increment and backup preferences, and skipping saves while you are performing.

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Saving on an interval

Set an interval and leave it on. The save is driven by a Timer CHOP, independent of the timeline, so it does not depend on the project playing and does not move anything you are working with.

Two modes, because people mean different things by "save":

  • TD uses TouchDesigner's own Save, honouring your Increment Filename when Saving and Copy to Backup Folder preferences, so if you like numbered saves, you keep getting them.
  • Overwrite holds that increment preference off for the duration of the save, so every save lands back in the file you already have open, however the preference is set.

Staying out of the way

Only if modified skips the save when nothing has changed, so an idle project is not rewritten every few minutes. Skip while performing suppresses saves in Perform Mode, because the middle of a show is the worst possible moment for a disk write.

Nothing is saved until you turn it on: it arrives inactive, and the status line tells you when the last save happened and when the next one is due.

Parameters

Its Registry page comes from FNS_ConfigRegistry.

Autosave

ControlType / defaultWhat it does
ActiveActive on / offoff Save the project every Interval minutes. A save stalls the frame while the .toe is written.
Interval (min)Interval number10 Minutes between automatic saves. Changing it restarts the countdown.
Save ModeMode menuTD Save (honour preferences) TD Save calls project.save(), so it follows TouchDesigner's own Increment Filename / Copy to Backup Folder preferences. Overwrite saves onto the .toe already open and never increments.
Options: TD Save (honour preferences), Overwrite current file
Only If ModifiedOnlymodified on / offon Skip a scheduled save when no operator has changed since the last one (project.modified is empty).
Skip In Perform ModeSkipperform on / offon Skip scheduled saves while the project is in Perform Mode. Save Now still works.
StatusStatusread-only textempty When the last save landed, or why the last scheduled one was skipped.
Last SaveLastsaveread-only textempty Time and filename of the last save this component made.
Save NowSavenow button Save immediately using the mode above, ignoring the skip toggles.

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