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sirhawkeye
Inspiring
July 30, 2022
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P: Crash recovery features

  • July 30, 2022
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I would like to see Adobe implement a crash-recovery feature for ACR.  I know that the XMP file (for RAW files) is only written when you open the file into PS or you click Done and close ACR.  It would be nice if in the background, ACR took "snapshots" of your work (not really snapshots like you would within ACR) but basically make a backup of your work, say every 5 minutes, and write it to a temp file.  Then if ACR closes gracefully (doesn't crash) the temp XMP file is erased.  If ACR crashes, then the temp file is detected and you are prompted if you want to pick up where you left off.

I think for this to work properly, it would have to be such that ACR writes each change you make to the temp XMP file (sort of like how Lightroom Classic does this with the XMP file option turned on).

 

I think if Adobe could implement this as an optional setting that you can activate, people would feel more comfortable using ACR.  I know in some of my long edit sessions, where I might spend 10-15+ minutes in ACR, I fear it crashing and losing all of my work.  My workaround for now is to simply click Done periodically to save changes so if ACR does crash, the most I would have lost would be any edits that were done since I Last opened the file in ACR, but a crash recovery feature would be nice.

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TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
July 30, 2022

And you're OK if this massivly slows down all your working with the tool? How often does this 'save' take place? 

Gotta have an option to disable if its even possible. 

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