Just lost a full day's work because my auto-save failed

I was putting the final touches on a detailed assembly drawing. My CAD software crashed and the auto-save feature didn't kick in, so all my progress is gone. What backup methods do you rely on to prevent this kind of headache?

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mason.elizabeth7mo ago

Do you manually save your work as you go, or were you totally relying on auto-save?

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brown.ben7mo ago

Total trust in auto-save sounds like a horror movie plot waiting to happen. My fingers still hit ctrl+s every few minutes without me even telling them to. After losing a whole term paper in college because a program froze, that fear is baked into my brain forever. Auto-save is a backup, not a plan. Relying on it completely is just asking for disaster.

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charlie9777mo ago

What if hitting save is just a habit from when computers crashed a lot?

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