automatic backup

Artfrost

Big request!
please make the limit for setting the time interval more than 30 minutes, for example up to 240 minutes (every 4 hours)
why?
even if you set the maximum value - 30 minutes
on average, at least 20-25 files are accumulated per day of work, 100-125 files per week, 450-550 files per month
yes, I work in spine for 12-13 hours ... but that's not the point
the problem is that there is a load on the disk, especially if the project is large.
For me, each backup file weighs 2.5MB
For a month of work, 1.3GB is accumulated in total, you must agree, not a little.
Since the program takes responsibility for the safety of the data, it must also keep order, shouldn't it?

In general, it would be cool to work on this section more tightly, to make more settings taking into account different situations.
For example, just one copy of the backup would be enough, why duplicate them over and over again I don’t understand, the disk space is not rubber. it fills with garbage.
The button is missing - "clear" old backups (for example, everything older than 3 months).
You can also add a checkmark - "do not duplicate the backup file", that is, at the time of manual saving, one backup file is created and subsequently overwritten.

every significant iteration, I save the project file manually (ctrl + s), while a copy of it is created in the backup folder and that would be enough for me, provided that the backup file is not duplicated but overwritten.
But now, all files are duplicated, taking away precious space)

Artfrost

Nate

just one copy of the backup would be enough, why duplicate them over and over again

A backup is not stored if no changes have been made. Each newer backup file has newer changes.

You can disable automatic backups entirely and Spine will still create a backup when you save: your old project file is copied to the backup folder, then the project is saved to a temp file, then the temp file is moved to replace the project file. If something goes wrong, like overwriting your project file fails, you still have the last good version of your project file.

Automatic backups means, in addition to that, also save the project every X minutes, if there are unsaved changes. The benefit of this is that should Spine crash, you have your project up to X minutes ago, even if you didn't save it explicitly.

Note that the automatic backup timer is reset when you save manually. If you save more often than 30 minutes, the automatic backup isn't happening. We could increase the max minutes slider value, but I'm not sure it would help your situation. We'd need another setting, something like "don't backup more often than X minutes" for both project save and automatic backups. That would be a little dangerous though.

Hard drive space is plentiful for most people. 1GB is a lot of data, but most people don't mind using the space for automatic backups. It's true we could provide some buttons to help clean up the files. My worry is that it becomes very easy for people to lose data they find out later they want to keep. As you know, many, many hours can go into a Spine project, so we want to protect that effort with backups.