In the past couple of months, I’ve had two large complex email documents I’ve had to write. Also in the past two months, I’ve had exactly two occasions when Notes crashed on me. These two sets of two occurrences each have a 100% correlation. In fact, both times, the crash occurred after a couple of hours of editing, when I was just making final proofreading edits.
Seriously, this is 2009, not 1999. Every freaking word processor and email system in the world has an auto-save of work in progress. All except one. How did you guys actually make it to Version 8 without it? How did you make it to Version 3 without it?
It isn’t even convenient to save a work in progress manually. You have to save, then you have to navigate over to the drafts folder, find it, and open it again. The least you could do it provide me a “Save and Continue Editing” button.
ONG! It was aggravating enough to make this document in the first place. Now I have to start all over.
Subject: Auto save???
Ctrl+s will save the document in draft without closing the existing mail
Subject: Autosave
Autosave is available.
Enable it in File - Preferences - Basic Notes Client Configuration - Autosave every x minutes
Individual forms must also be enabled to ‘Allow Autosave’.
– Vin
IBM
Subject: Auto save
Thanks for both responses. Sorry for the somewhat heated note earlier – I was pretty upset. I had been working on this document for over 3 hours – it had numerous sections, nested a couple deep in places, and quite a few images. (I didn’t have them saved anywhere else – they were screen shots of assorted settings pages for our new development setup, which I had just pasted into the note.)
When it crashed, I was cutting and pasting a section (which I believe did contain nested sections and images) from one spot in the message to another. I don’t know if this helps at all.
How do I tell if my form supports auto-save? (I guess I can just wait 5 minutes to find out.) If it doesn’t, how do I enable it?
May I suggest turning this on by default?
Subject: Autosave
‘Allow Autosave’ is a property on the form design:
This would be set in form design in the Designer.
If I remember correctly, it’s up to the application designer to enable the form for Autosave, because there could be processing tied to the form’s save event. You might not want this processing to execute for a background autosave, but only an explicit user save.
– Vin