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11-20-2012, 07:49 AM
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Too easy to save over Project Templates?
When I load a Project Template, I would like it to prompt me to Save As next time I hit Save, rather than just saving over the template. Is this possible? Seems a bit counter productive to allow templates to be over-written via the normal save process.
When I open Reaper, the default new project is labelled [Unsaved] and prompts a Save As when I hit Save - this is the behaviour I want for any just-loaded template...
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11-20-2012, 08:18 AM
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so why don't you just make a 'safety' folder where you keep copies of your templates so that in case you mistakenly overwrite one, you can get a fresh copy from the safety folder?
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11-20-2012, 12:57 PM
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Sure, could do that, but the behaviour I describe would be much more desirable I reckon. When you open a Word template, it doesn't let you save over it, it prompts you for a new save location... it's a workflow thing.
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11-20-2012, 01:08 PM
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Word behaves correctly in this case. Reaper doesn't. +1.
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11-20-2012, 02:23 PM
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Agreed.
Feature request?
I'd vote for that in a hearbeat. Until then, check "prompt to save" under preferences>Project. That way as soon as you open a new project or template, it asks you to save it as a new file.
Be a lot easier if it prompted "save as" the first time I hit my save shortcut instead, as sometimes I don't know what to call something until I start working on it. How many different "new project", "new tune", "new song", "new idea", etc... can we have.
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11-20-2012, 03:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mudchild
Save As when I hit Save - this is the behaviour I want for any just-loaded template...
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It wont give you this behaviour but if you make your template files read only they will not be overwriten.
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11-21-2012, 03:09 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DanXIV
It wont give you this behaviour but if you make your template files read only they will not be overwriten.
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Yes I thought this, but I'm having a weird one with that - I set my templates to Read Only, and they remain that way, UNTIL I test it by opening a template in Reaper, changing it, and hitting Save... at which point the template file LOSES its Read Only status and is saved as normal. They just won't stay Read Only.
Why is this happening?
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