I was working on a project in 3D and saved periodically or should I say every time I made progress. The program crashed and I was quite pleased with my self because I'd been saving all along. When I went to open up the same file the project went back about 3 saves or in other words my last two saves didn't make it through the crash. I use "ctrl S" to save. Should I use the file drop down menu? Has anyone else encountered this? I've suspected this behavior before but this time I know the saves weren't taken into account.

The other thing I've had happen is I'll start a new drawing and later it crashes but it's not in the recent file list under the file menu. The other day I placed a file in the wrong folder and I lost mucho tiempo looking for the file.

Chuck

Not necessarily so.

PolyCAD, a vessel hull program written originally back in the lat 90s or early 2000s, remembers your MRU file if it is crashed.

I wish that VCP could be made to create a text file which it appends every single time a file is opened, then allows the user to put an X and a space before each file to be ignored on the next open, or next recovery after a crash.

I also wish that ms had the foresight and that developers had the audacity or backbone to tell ms that the MRU paradigm is CRAP. It needs to be interactive, and by default, not by add-on or 3rd-party enhancement. The MRU/File Open interface should ask the user to flag files as found-opened-on-random-hunting if the user closes the file within 20 seconds. This way, a separate MRU could be maintained so that the primary MRU is less cluttered with junk and there is less reason to use a very, very long history-laden MRU.

For example, you want to return to a file that was a one-off, and last touched 8 months ago. You recall being ill, returning from vacation, and spawning or forking two drawings from it, but cannot find the original inspiring file. You hunt and open 10-20 files and your memory-jog MRU is toast.

Unfortunately, for some of us, the MRU is a tool in itself more like a memory aid, but is adulterated by random file searches. Yes, one can probably go into the registry, but that is dangerous, and is something easy to shun or overlook until a good long search becomes futile.

Reluctantly, I have to resort to:

paper files

endless shortcuts

text files with notes

screenshots