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Posted 25 Mar 2020 01:57 #1
Hi all,
In preferences on the General Tab you can tick the box to "Allow Autosave". My question is how often does the autosave cut in and is there a way to change the autosave duration?
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 15:56 #2
Which exact version of Vegas Pro are you using ?
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 19:35 #3
Hello Derek, I should have said I am using VEGAS Pro 16. I have not upgraded to VP 17 yet.
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Posted 26 Mar 2020 11:15 #4
In Vegas Pro 16 "Auto-Save" saves a temporary copy of your project every 5 minutes.
If Vegas crashes, it will re-open the auto-saved copy of your project file.
This function does not re-save the original project file!

However, since Vegas Pro 16 was released, there is a new more advanced auto-save/backup function you can use, which does re-save your original project file.
Go to Tools/Advanced Save

Live Save will re-save the original file, however you need to be careful if you turn this on, because it will be continually re-saving your project.
Advanced Backup is probably the best option to use.

Go to Help/Contents and Index and search Advanced Backup
This will explain all the settings.



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Posted 26 Mar 2020 19:01 #5
Thank you Derek, very helpful as always and I will give it a go later when I switch on. I ask because Vegas Pro sometimes crashes particularly when I use Titler Pro 5 in a project. My computer has a Ryzen 7 CPU, a Navidia 1060 graphics card and 32 GB of memory so it should be fine. I have already done a reset to clear the cache. If you have further suggestions I would be pleased to hear them. I hope you are well at present.
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Posted 27 Mar 2020 17:15 #6
Titler Pro is often the cause of many crashes.

There are three things I recommend you do when using Titler Pro 5 a lot:
1. Regularly save your Vegas projects while editing.
Now you know how to automate this.

2. Reboot your computer regularly when working on big/complicated Vegas/Titler Pro projects and don't have other programs open when using Vegas.
This makes sure your RAM doesn't get filled with junk and cause a crash.

3. Clean/delete the NBFX Titler Pro temporary files cache.
Open Documents on your computer and enter this address to find the cache, then delete everything in the folder.
I have found that regularly cleaning this folder, stops Titler Pro from crashing as frequently.
It will regenerate when you re-open a saved project.

C:\Users\**your-user-name**\AppData\Local\Temp\Titler Pro
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Posted 27 Mar 2020 21:01 #7
Thank you Derek. Your advice is very helpful as always.
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Posted 04 Apr 2020 01:22 #8
Hello Derek, just one more question related to this.
I use VP16. If I go to C:Users,My Name,AppData,Local,VEGAS Pro,16.0, what can I delete here? I see lots of .veg files, lots of .bin files and lots of .log files. There are a few other files and some folders at the top as well. I don't want to delete items which are essential to keep.
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Posted 07 Apr 2020 19:31 #9

BobH wrote: Hello Derek, just one more question related to this.
I use VP16. If I go to C:Users,My Name,AppData,Local,VEGAS Pro,16.0, what can I delete here? I see lots of .veg files, lots of .bin files and lots of .log files. There are a few other files and some folders at the top as well. I don't want to delete items which are essential to keep.
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It normally is perfectly safe to delete everything in the Temporary Files Cache.
If you delete everything in this folder, anything important will be regenerated the next time you open Vegas.
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