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Automatic Back-Up of Scripts

You can define where and how often Nuke makes automatic back-ups your files, or turn off the autosave function.

To Define Autosave Options for a Script

The Preferences dialog opens.

• autosave filename - to define where and under what name Nuke saves your automatic back-up files. By default, the files are saved in the same folder as your project files with the extension .autosave. To change this, enter a full directory path name in the autosave filename field.

• autosave after idle for - to define how long (in seconds) Nuke waits before performing an automatic back-up after you have left the system idle.

• force autosave after - to define how long (in seconds) Nuke waits before performing an automatic back-up regardless of whether the system is idle.

NOTE:  If you close the Preferences dialog without clicking Save Prefs, your changes only affect the current session of Nuke.

NOTE:  For the automatic back-up to work, you must save your script first so that the autosave can reference the file. We’d hate for you to lose your work, so please do this early on in the process!

To Turn off Automatic Back-Up

The Preferences dialog opens.

From now on, Nuke does not perform any automatic back-ups, and you are more likely to lose your work in the case of a system or power failure.