Testing out the app and I made dozens of changes to a template over the course of three days. I went into Settings and the app crashed (can’t replicate it) and only then did I discover that none of my changes were saved.
Settings > General > Saving is set to “Auto-save after 2 seconds of inactivity”.
Does this setting apply only to projects and not templates?
Is there a way to automatically save template changes?
I will have at least 6 more templates that will require many changes as I optimize my workflow over the next month or more. My fault for not testing for this first, but having to manually save changes will get annoying quickly since it feels like something I shouldn’t have to think about - whether the app crashes or not.
Hi.
You can’t actually modify a template.
When you “load” a template, in fact you create a new project from it.
So, all this time you’ve been tweaking a project ; not a template.
Just go to where you saved when prompted to, when you first selected your desired template. Your project will be there with all the changes you’ve made to it.
Alternatively, you can look in File / Recent Projects, it should be listed there.
Otherwise, if for some reason (your crash) your project is not in the recent projects list, and if you don’t remember where you’ve first saved to, surely you remember the name (or part of the name) you gave it. (?) Search your drive for that.
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P.S. When done setting things up (modifying a project), you can turn that project into a new template. But else no, a template, once you’ve turned the project into a template, can’t be modified otherwise. The only thing you can further do to it is modify the source project some more, and then overwrite the template you’ve created from it, or save it as another new template.
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As for backups, I’ll simply refer you to the manual. It’s all neatly explained there.
Page 64 (Section 5-2)
(Automatic save is not a backup.)
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Thank you, found it. Read through the manual and projects/templates, auto-save, and backup make sense now and should work well for me.
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Hi @z6am,
In addition to @Vincent_Vincent’s excellent suggestion of reading the backup section of the manual, read this post I wrote a while back. It has some practical Backup tips you might find useful. It was written for Scriv v1, but none of the backup features have changed except for menu options. You can skip the SYNCING section.
Best,
Jim
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