accidently saved, and i'm out of undo's... What now?

Midyin

ok, so I was working on scene three, but I accidently saved over scene 2. i mashed the undo button in a hurry, but they're limited for some reason... is there a way i can go back further than the Daz Devs want to let me?

Richard Haseltine

The undo stack size is limited because of the amount of data it can end up holding. Unfortunately if you don't have a version from before the save in File History or the like I don't think there is a fix. Sorry not to have better news.

margrave

The best way to work is to save your scene out as presets (character preset, pose preset, lighting preset, etc.) rather than one big scene file, and as soon as you save a preset go into your file system and flag it read-only to prevent yourself from accidentally overwriting it.

I know this from experience.

Richard Haseltine

If you remove the authorship data (from Edit>Preferences) it will treat every save as a Save As, which might help. You could also take one of Rob's sample scripts http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/save_duf_scene/start and use it to create a custom asve routine, then adjust the Layout in Window>Workspace>Customise to use that instead of the standard save routines. One customisation would be to implement incremental saving, though for that you could also look at https://www.daz3d.com/super-save

Fishtales

The easiest way is to go to where you save the scene files to, right click on the .duf file, open properties and set it to Read Only, that way you can't save over it. If you are sure you want to save over it then click Save As, when the window opens to where the scene files are right click on the .duf file, remove the Read Only and save. When it has closed and saved click Save As again and when the window opens reset the scene to Read Only and cancel out of the window.