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  • Published 27 Jun 2022

Use file compression option for autosaves

Autosaves should be able to use file compression as well. Not only would this save some space, with file sizes approaching multiple gigabytes, un-compressed saving seems to become slower than compressed saving especially on HDDs.

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Development Status: Done

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the51
27 Jun 2022

3 Comments

pablovazquez

Marking this as Done! This is the new default in Blender 5.0 projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/00dbb53131

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zanqdo

Compression for autosave was specifically tackled here projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132685

xanthor

Maybe only store changes (reverse) in that files and only the last of the row (if you have 15 save files, store the 15. complete and 13 only the changes and the first one also complete, maybe the last one with compression but then with the possibility to easyly restore from safepoint?