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Backup or Warning before overwriting an output image...

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:22 pm
by Kabe
I just lost an 40+ hours render time image due to a simple overwrite of the result. This happened without any warning and without creating a backup.

An app that dares to claim 550+ MB hard drive space for a scene and needs
2 days to render it halfway decent could and should claim another 1MB of
my HD to save the 1k image it is going to overwrite as a backup.

Or at least it should ask before destroying hours of (machine work).

Kabe

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:33 am
by JTB
I am with you 100%
This is a must and I wonder why nobody from NL or A-team bothered to mention and fix. I lost two pictures this way too. Not something very important but I can imagine how you feel right now.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:37 pm
by Xlars
I agree. A warning (or automatically suggested renaming) would be nice ..

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:36 pm
by deesee
This is right up there with UNDO as one of the top "must have" items to include in future releases.