Today I made a discovery that’s left me completely stunned. There seems to be a “threshold” of changes or types of changes you have to make to a project in order for Cubase to ask you if you want to save your project when you close it.
WTF?
For years, I’ve wondered why it seemed like changes I’d made to projects went missing even though I was POSITIVE that I’d made them. It seems I’ve found the answer.
So, I tested it. I’m using Cubase 15 and opened a project three different times, making minor changes each time, like changing the color of a track or changing the view setup or fixing a misspelling. It has to be something small. Then I closed the project. No prompt to ask if I want to save. Tried it in Cubase 14 on a different system. Same thing. I can’t figure out what the criteria is for prompting a save query on close.
You gotta be kidding me.
This has nothing to do with auto-save or good saving habits. I have those. I’m talking about a simple fail-safe that catches things you may have forgotten about for a myriad of reasons. The other three DAWs I use are practically militant about this. All you have to do is open the project and close it, nothing else, and the app asks you if you want save it. That’s how it should work.
Is there a setting to correct this (there shouldn’t be - it should be on all the time)? I can’t find one.
Seriously, I’m completely gobsmacked.
Cubase 15.0.5, Sequoia 15.7.2, Intel MacPro/MacBook Pro M4 Max, 512/64GB RAM, Avid MTRXII I/O