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DaVinci Resolve also has two auto save mechanisms that you can enable in the Save Settings
group of controls, called Live Save and Project Backups.
Auto Save controls in the User Preferences
Live Save
Enabling Live Save sets DaVinci Resolve to incrementally save changes as you make changes
to your project, with no user intervention required. Disabling Live Save puts DaVinci Resolve
back into a state where you have to manually save by pressing Command-S (this can be useful
when doing demos when you don’t want to save your changes to a project). Using Live Save is
highly recommended to prevent the loss of work in the event you have a problem. It even works
for previously unsaved projects that you’ve forgotten to save if anything goes wrong.
NOTE: When you use Collaborative Workflow to enable multiple artists to work
together in the same project, Live Save is automatically turned on and cannot
be disabled.
Project Backups
Turning on the Project Backups checkbox in the Project Save and Load panel of the User
Preferences enables DaVinci Resolve to save multiple backup project files at periodic intervals,
using a method that’s analogous to a GFS (grandfather father son) backup scheme. This can be
done regardless of whether or not Live Save is turned on. Each project backup that’s saved is a
complete project file, excluding stills and LUTs, which are omitted in order to save
storage space.
Once you’ve enabled Project Backups for a long enough time, whatever saved project backups
have been created are retrievable in the Project Manager via the contextual menu that appears
when you right-click a project, by choosing Project Backups to open the backups list dialog.
The backups list dialog shows you all backups that are available for a particular project, and has
controls for sorting the list via different columns, deleting some or all of the backups in the list,
and loading backups that you want to retrieve. Opening a project backup does not overwrite
the original project; project backups are always opened as independent projects.
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