Project File Backups

Any way to save more than 10 project file backups in the folder? I pretty much saved all of them when I was in 7. I can't seem to find any preference for setting the number of backup files Logic can save to greater than 10.

 

This is could be a major bummer for me. Perhaps another instance of apple thinking it knows better what I want than I do myself.

 

(Unless of course I'm overlooking something).

No, in Logic 8 you get 10 automatic back-ups and that's it, no more options. But you should only use those backups if something weird happened in between the last time few times you saved (so up to the last 10 times). If you need more, I recommend making them manually, saving the project at much larger intervals (I like 20mn) and giving them incremental names (song1, song2, song3...).

 

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=1635

In addition to David's suggestion, which I do myself, you can also save a copy of each file with a date. So I call the file "My Mix - 11-28-2007-01", and then a second save that day will be "My Mix - 11-28-2007-02" and so on. Then the next day its "My Mix - 11-29-2007-01" This way, not only do you have multiple copies in case something happens to the file, but you can always go back to a particular session if need be. This can be especially helpful if you screw something up accidentally (or have clients that like to change their mind frequently), and need to go back and look at settings from a previous session.

Yes there is.

 

There's a hack and it works perfectly. I discovered it on this very forum.

 

Open Terminal and enter this command:

 

defaults write com.apple.logic.pro MaxBackupsToKeep 100

 

This will allow 100 backups.

Yes there is.

 

There's a hack and it works perfectly. I discovered it on this very forum.

 

Open Terminal and enter this command:

 

defaults write com.apple.logic.pro MaxBackupsToKeep 100

 

This will allow 100 backups.

 

Cool. Now that's an easy hack!

Yes there is.

 

There's a hack and it works perfectly. I discovered it on this very forum.

 

Open Terminal and enter this command:

 

defaults write com.apple.logic.pro MaxBackupsToKeep 100

 

This will allow 100 backups.

 

Cool. Now that's an easy hack!

 

wow, yet another feature that I used and had no idea was taken out of logic 8.

 

sad we have to revert to hacks to get these things back.

Yes there is.

 

There's a hack and it works perfectly. I discovered it on this very forum.

 

Open Terminal and enter this command:

 

defaults write com.apple.logic.pro MaxBackupsToKeep 100

 

This will allow 100 backups.

 

I lurve this place.

 

--Except I did a search for "project file backup" and didn't get anything. At least now I would have.

This was the original post:

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=14671

 

And this is another great tip to remove the transport bar:

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=16039

 

So now we need to find a way to remove the second channel strip in the inspector and we'll be laughing!

 

I'm compiling all these great tips on my website.

i'm down for 100 backups.

 

where do i find "terminal"?

 

thnks

i'm down for 100 backups.

 

where do i find "terminal"?

 

thnks

 

/Applications/Utilities/

 

Or use Spotlight, Spotlight is your friend.

i'm down for 100 backups.

 

where do i find "terminal"?

 

thnks

 

/Applications/Utilities/

 

Or use Spotlight, Spotlight is your friend.

 

Quicksilver is better! Using both is best.

i'm down for 100 backups.

 

where do i find "terminal"?

 

thnks

 

/Applications/Utilities/

 

Or use Spotlight, Spotlight is your friend.

 

Quicksilver is better! Using both is best.

 

I stopped using Quicksilver when the developer bailed out on fixing bug found in 10.5. Anyway, after using SpotLight for launching apps I'm quite used to it now, even if I heard the Quicksilver issues have been fixed by other developers.

 

Command-space is your friend!

Command-space is your friend!

 

This is really all anyone needs to know.

You will notice that the 100 backups option has been re-instated in Logic 9.