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JohnAnderson108
Community Member
12 months ago

auto save feature request

Hi

Just lost 9 days work because Storyline thinks my .story file is corrupt. 

I look at it in its folder and instead of 500GBs it's 1KB

I made a manual backup 9 days ago last time i panicked when I got an error opening the file.

I assumed Storyline came with an auto-save feature where it saves the file every hour or so.

Looks like it's not the case. 

Any chance you would add this as a feature?

Thanks :( 

storyline 360
  • JohnAnderson108's avatar
    JohnAnderson108
    Community Member
    12 months ago

    Now have AOMEI Backupper on a 30 day backup schedule.

    Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office I now own but it doesn't work.  It runs the backup and reports successful but doesn't backup any files.  I have a ticket into support.  It looks cool but not much hope for support with a tiny app but we'll see

    I suspected with my .story file on my Google Drive and watching a 1 second load freeze upon accessing a directory was a bad sign.

    I listened to your warnings not to store .story files on network drives in your training videos   

    I was thinking since Google Drive stores a local copy that sync's to cloud, storyline would see my local Google Drive folders as 'local' but seems not so.  Not sure but I moved them from Google Drive to Desktop which in Windows 11 is really OneDrive. 

    Windows Backup says it's backing up its favorite folders: desktop, documents, AppData, etc.  Backup says complete. 200Mbs copied while the folder size is around 30Gigs. 

    On OneDrive online I go to Backups and nothing is there.  I don't know if this is where windows puts it's FileHistory backup feature which really sucks - maybe those files go to backup tab on OneDrive.  Not sure.  FileHistory causes too many problems to use.

    Backup solutions 1 of 3 work :-/

    At least something is working :p 

  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    12 months ago

    Yes, *always* work with the .story file on your local hard drive. Any work that involves an internet connection could encounter minor disruptions that results in major corruption.

    Years ago, I also had an early Super Hero tell me to always close my .story file before I took a break. Or, rather, before my PC took a break and went to sleep. I don't know if the sleep/wake process could still impact a file, but I still follow his advice. 

    And it doesn't hurt to develop the habit of backing up the file after each work session, whether that's in the cloud, on a SharePoint site, and/or on a flash drive. 

    Best wishes!

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