3ds max 2011: Aggrevating save bug

[Astralogic]

Hello, I am having a serious problem. Most of the time when I load my scene (I use the incremental save feature, well who doesn't?) my latest changes are never saved.

 

Literally most of the time I load my scene only to find I have to spend 15-20 minutes making the latest changes AGAIN because they did not save. This happens way too often and surely MAX can not be used by big industries with this happening, it's just not possible. So that leads me to believe it must be my computer somehow.

 

I usually (after clicking save as copy) repeatedly click the save button many many times to ensure that the scene is fully saved. This has always worked (although I only had that idea yesterday).

 

But when MAX crashes after I just do a regular save as copy (like it did ten minutes ago) then I can say goodbye to any of the latest changes that I saved

 

The old versions of MAX were never this buggy.

 

Please, any advice is desperately needed and will be appreciated, even if it doesn't lead to anything, I'll try anything!

Edited February 10, 2012 by Astralogic
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[filipskrzat]

i advice you to change max settings in "autoback" section.

 

I am using 4 autoback files, time between : 2 minutes.

 

I am using educational 2012, I have 75% chances that max will crush while saving file..

[Astralogic]

i advice you to change max settings in "autoback" section.

 

I am using 4 autoback files, time between : 2 minutes.

 

I am using educational 2012, I have 75% chances that max will crush while saving file..

 

Mine was set to 3 files every 5 minutes. I have set it as you describe. Thanks