File Menu

Since Murphy's law states that files should always be deleted just before you really need them, maybe you should put some thought into securing your scenes.

The application can crash and you can lose the scene you were just working on. Or an error can occur on the hard drive when saving the scene and all your work will be irrevocably lost.

If this happens, it's always nice to be able to have a backup so you don't have to create the scene again from scratch. We've provided a solution for just these instances.

You can secure you work in one of three ways.

• You can activate the Backup Copies option in the Preferences / Files menu and set it's value to greater than 0.
• The Preferences menu's Files / Auto Save settings let you define intervals in which the scene will automatically be saved.
• You can define how many backup copies you want created.

The second possibility is to use the Save Incremental function. Each time Save Incremental is implemented, your scene will be saved as a new file, numbered sequentially in ascending order. Previously saved files will not be overwritten.