Saving is still automatic. When will you please stop this?

Hi,

A lot of customers use autosave. It helps to be sure that you will not lose the changes if something happens (like a hard-drive crash, for example). Some of the projects cannot be saved in the ram because of the large files. Therefore saving is a required step. The undo-redo options are available after saving too.

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Hi folks,
Great that Autosave can now be disabled but I am still wondering why we have to save
before we can produce the project?
My method of developing is make small changes then build, test accept or undo. This allows
me to make numerous changes without having issues with saved files that have changes I do not
wish to keep.
Can Nicepage actually create the project from what is in memory or does it have to have a saved
set of files?

TIA :)

Hi folks,
Great that Autosave can now be disabled but I am still wondering why we have to save
before we can produce the project?
My method of developing is make small changes then build, test accept or undo. This allows
me to make numerous changes without having issues with saved files that have changes I do not
wish to keep.
Can Nicepage actually create the project from what is in memory or does it have to have a saved
set of files?

TIA :)

Hi,

Nicepage was auto saving after each and every little change I'm making
which caused a lag in the program itself.

When you disable the autosave option, then if you click the Save button, the save process is in progress, the button becomes inactive until the page is saved, and this takes some time.
If autosave is enabled, then the save itself occurs automatically, but with an interval, that should correspond to the time when you click the Save button (approximately) when the autosave option is disabled.

If you have problems with the autosave option, please create a separate topic, provide temporary access to the site backend and specify after what exactly actions we can see the problem.

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Last edited 21 September 2020 by Support Team

Thank goodness this feature is implemented!

Nicepage was auto saving after each and every little change I'm making which caused a lag in the program itself.

I finally figured out why the software was lagging... auto save was on!

Thank you

Hi,

I found the setting to turn off autosave. Thanks

Hi nicepage,

I just updated nicepage to v2.5.1
and found autosave come back.

Please check and stop autosave.

Thanks,
Moon

Hi Tony,

Yes, this is how this option works. Export is not possible without saving changes in the desktop version.

We have added your request about the possibility of export without changes in our wishlist, but we cannot say whether this feature will be implemented or not and when.

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Last edited 16 September 2019 by Support Team

The next part of the question if you would be so kind.

1. I have turned off autosaving.
2. If I make changes then export the site to test I still
   have to save before it will export the site.

Why if I have turned off autosaving?

Thank you.

Hi,

You are welcome. Follow the news а the next updates!

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I see you now have an option to turn off auto save in the latest update! THanks. For these who are interested in turning it off go to your account settings there is a drop down box to disable auto save.
Thanks again Nicepage.

Hi,

This feature is under the development right now. Please follow the news.

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When is this going to be completed. What is the status?

Last edited 15 July 2019 by jpalmer2

Tony,

We started working on this feature and expect to release it in a few weeks.

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Hi jpalmer2.
Thank you for the comments but I am sure it is a simple 1/2hour fix, if only they would
think clearly. The amount of stress this one bad choice makes is crazy. I actually like their
platform and think it could be best of breed. However the lack of flexibility shown to their
users is bad news.
I have been writing cross platform software for 15 years for linux, windows, apple, android and os/2.
You cannot seriously tell me the issue is a file based issue, it is simply a logic flow. Nothing else
need change.
Or simply disable to autosave timer. Real easy fix. That means we can use the Save Icon only when
we want to save or not.

Hey guys turn off the autosave timer...

Tony,
I agree I would love for them to get rid of autosave. As a programer myself, since the early 80s I believe I figured out what the problem is. When they open a project, instead of writing to a temporary file or directory, they are most likely writing directly to the project file. This was a poor decision to make in the beginning of development but in order to change it they would have to restructure the whole file system. Perhaps this decision was made because they are developing for multiple operating systems and the cloud. I'm not defending them believe me I want them to get rid of auto save in the worst way.

Last edited 31 May 2019 by jpalmer2

Hi Andy,
Disabling autosave is not the same as version control. Disabling autosave will allow you to make changes and save as you go at your choice not Nicepage. This means you can save or not then close and reopen the project at the last point you saved.
I have never before had any software that automatically saved whether I wanted it to or not.

FYI I currently zip my folder using 7zip before I open it. Then play with Nicepage. If I don't like the changes I unzip
the last zip file to let me start again. It is a pain in the butt but it works for me.

@Tony62
Hi!
You said: "Even showing clients the page is frustrating when they say "no I prefer it before the last change, please revert."

Could your suggestion to stop autosave would give us the possibility to revert back on the versions?

Andy

Unfortunately for Nicepage I can tell you I have been writing software for computers since 1987.
So I can tell you that you are simply not doing it right if the suggestion I gave you cannot be implemented.
If you can add a dialog to the code that asks whether the save should continue or not then
the code I suggested if only a little more difficult.
Heck, give me the code and I will do it for you for free.

Last edited 29 May 2019 by tony62