kim Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 FZ9 is making new versions every time I am saving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hi kim, Are you on OS X and saving to an iCloud drive (or iCloud mapped drive)? Can you try saving to a non-iCloud location. It seems iCloud is messing with our renaming of the backup files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 Yup, only happens when I use the iCloud drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZTEK Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I always use iCloud Drive for my projects and sometimes it happens to me too. Also with AutoCAD, not only with formZ. I think it's related to the quality of the wifi, but it's very erratic and I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 iCloud uses a combination of local storage and server storage. iCloud always trying to keep things in sync between the cloud and all of the devices. It may hlep to understand the process when a file formZ is saved. formZ writes the project to a temp file ($$$fmz$$.zsr) to avoid overwriting the exiting file until we know the save was successful. We then delete the original file and rename the temp file to the real name. If keep backup option is on, the .fzb file is deleted first, the .fmz is renamed to the .fzb and then the temp is renamed file to the real name. The iCloud is trying to keep things in sync during this process and seems to be renaming the file because it sees another file with the same name (but different date, checksum) on the cloud. We are investigating to see if there is a way to detect that we are saving to a iCloud location (or Google drive etc) and the do things differently to avoid the issue. Also you may want to see if iCloud has any kind of setting to control how often it syncs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 I created a file and deselected the Make Backup. For some reason FZ is still making a backup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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