Editor 6.0.8.4 not auto backing up since New Year date rollover

[fastgrandad]

For some reason my pc decided to seize up today whilst working on a project and before I had saved my latest software version. 'Never mind' I thought, it's backed up automatically, however, when I went to the backup folder, the last backup for any project was at 23:40hrs on 31st December 2015, and nothing since, even though I have been working on a couple of projects over the past few days, have autosave set to 5 minute intervals and reprogrammed the 14M2+ frequently over the period.

It may be a coincidence but I am tempted to ask whether the roll over to 2016 has caused this to happen, although I can't imagine why it should.

Incidentally, the PC crash occurred at least twice whilst I was playing with the 1307 clock (and making a bad job of getting the I2C code right). It hasn't crashed since I sorted the code although, again, I can't see why this should have such a bad effect on my PC. If there are any log files that might help with diagnosis, point me to them and I'll make them available.

Many thanks

Paul

 

[inglewoodpete]

I hadn't done any software development since New Year until now. Having now done some, I can say that no backups are being created for Version 6.0.8.3. I know, I know, it's a version that I should update but I can state that the error is mirrored on another PC.

Having just attempted to update my post, I'm finding the latest version of the forum software acting a bit strange, too. IE11. Forum editing worked after unloading/restarting IE.

 

[hippy]

We will investigate if there is an issue with auto-backups.

 

[fastgrandad]

It's good to know it's not just me! It occurrs to me that 15 = $F; just a thought.
OS is Windows 7 pro, 32 bit

 

[hippy]

I don't normally have auto-backup enabled but when I turned it on it worked for me. Details of what auto-backup settings you have may held us investigate.

 

[fastgrandad]

Screen shot of settings above, hopefully.

 

[fastgrandad]

So, inspired by the fact that Hippys worked when he enabled it, I disabled then re-enabled auto and it's now making backups again. All I did was uncheck the box, click ok, then re-enabled, without closing and restarting Editor.

It would be interesting to know if Pete's does the same.

As always, thanks for the support.

Paul

 

[hippy]

Thanks for the update. That seems to be the workround but we will check to see if there is an underlying issue.

 

[inglewoodpete]

It would be interesting to know if Pete's does the same.

I did some further development this evening. I checked the backups folder after a couple of hours. Lo and behold: a backup file every 10 minutes! I have not changed any setup parameters, so I have no idea why it has decided to work today but did not work yesterday.

 

[Technical]

The backup feature works on a Windows interval timer, it does not calculate intervals using the time/date (even when appending the current date as a string to the filename if that feature is selected).