Instruction Manual

286 Recording
Saving Your Work
If you have made changes to a project and then attempt to close the
project, either by closing the Track view or by choosing File-Close, SONAR
asks if you want to save the changes you have made. This prevents you
from accidentally losing your work. You can tell whether changes have
been made to a project by looking for an asterisk (*) after the project name
in the SONAR title bar.
SONAR has an Auto Save feature that periodically saves your work into a
special backup file. You can request automatic backups at fixed time
intervals or every time a certain number of changes have been made to the
file. When the limit is reached, the file is saved automatically. If your original
project is called
MYPROJECT.CWP, the Auto Save version is called AUTO SAVE
VERSION OF MYPROJECT.CWP.
If there is a power failure or if you make a significant mistake, you can
recover the last-saved version of your project by opening this file. You
should then save your project under a different name by using the File-
Save As command.
To Save a Project
1. Choose File-Save As to display the Save As dialog box.
2. Choose the type of file you want to save from the Save as Type list.
3. Enter a file name and click Save.
SONAR saves the file. You can also use File Versioning instead of
using Save As. For more information, see To Use File Versioning.
To Change the Auto Save Settings
1. Choose Options-Global and click the Autosave and Versioning tab.
2. To enable Auto Save, set the number of minutes and/or the number of
changes between saves.
3. To disable Auto Save, set both values to zero.
4. Click OK.
From now on, your projects are saved automatically according to the
settings you entered.
Using File Versioning
SONAR can be enabled to keep previously saved versions of your project
in a temporary file. You can revert to any of these saved versions or use the
default of the most recently saved version.