Can anyone explain to me why Dorico is putting MANY (as many as 100) backups in my Trash on the Mac? (see the attached screenshot).
It’s not really mission-critical as emptying the Trash is easy enough.
Just curious why this is happening.
I have auto-save turned off.
Any help?
Thanks, Bill
I noted this previously on Windows. It strikes me as bad behavior – I don’t know any other apps that put their discarded backups into the trash as opposed to just deleting them.
I’ve written a script I run as a cron job to delete Dorico backups and autosave files from the trash, so that it only holds things that I have deleted myself.
If you open Backup Projects (within the /Documents/Dorico Projects folder) you should see that Dorico’s saving a backup copy of the file each time you manually save, and it’ll hang onto however many versions of the file are specified in Preferences (five by default). If you save the same file more than five times, Dorico will delete backups on a first in first out basis; it’ll delete the oldest version to make room for the newest version. These files will end up in the Trash.
And though I should know better than to say this, if you’re the sort of person that tends to manually save every two minutes, might it be worth hanging onto a backup that’s more than 10 minutes old, in case you later catch a mistake introduced e.g. the previous day? I know backups of that sort of age have saved my bacon more than once, even just to copy and paste from…
Autosave is something different: if it’s enabled, it saves silently every few minutes (duration customisable in Preferences) and then when Dorico/the project is closed normally the Autosaved files are deleted.
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Thanks for the quick reply and info. I checked the Backups folder; interesting contents.
ust started Dorico in late August, still learning the ropes. I really don’t get the seemingly overabundance of backups, but…
Thanks, Bill
Bad behavior indeed; the likes of which I never seen.
At least the Trash is quick/easy to empty.
Thanks for the quick response.
Bill
The abundance is that there’s a backup file created every time you type Cmd-S. Don’t type Cmd-S and no backup will be created (I mean, do, obviously!).
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Yeah, I do tend to save frequently. Still, odd behavior from Dorico IMHO.
Bill
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If kindness isn’t been recognised any more: poor world…
Better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them.
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I, too, save frequently, because in Finale, I would often loose work when it crashed! Thank you Dorico for being so stable on my MacBook Air.
Jim
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