Re: Autosave on Mac

["Jon P" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("xywrite4")]

I appreciate you for responding,  Kari, but nothing works. Autosav1.tmp is still an ancient file. Something I didn't store yesterday disappeared, though luckily I had uploaded it elsewhere. 

Settings.dfl, even after multiple restarts, includes:

df BK=1

DF AOP=C:\XY4\XY  (which is where settings.dfl and all newly written files are located, according to XY command line)

DF AOT=3,10

I've lost a couple of things so this is as worrying as it is baffling. I think it's an interaction between XY4 and DosBox-X but I don't know what's going on. 

Jon P. 

JP 

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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 03:53:27 +0000 (UTC)

From: "Jon P" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("xywrite4")

Subject: Autosave on Mac

t autosav1.tmp, long unchanged,  is still in the directory. 

Writing in XY, the command line says C:'XY4\XY\filename

In SETTINGS.DFL  I have tried:

DF AOPÿ\XY4\XYDF AOPÿDF AOPÿ 

  AOT is set at default:  DFÿ10

I currently save everything manually when I think of it but...does anyone have ideas on Autosave?Thanks as always.

JP

Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 13:56:40 +0300

Subject: Re: Autosave on Mac

From: Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Jon,

As noted previously, Autosave is governed by settings.dfl directives as

follows (which you can also put in startup.int):

; AOP is autosave path, directory must exist before applying setting

df AOPÿ\XY437\AUTOSAVE\

; AOT is autosave timer, AOTÿnimum_time[,maximum_time] (,max_time

defaults to min_time+5 minutes), 0,0 ÿo autosave

df AOT

If AOP points to a new directory, autosave does not create it. So, try

pointing AOP to an existing directory.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli

LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)

lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

Jon P (xywrite4) kirjoitti 22.5.2023 klo 7:17:

> I have been wrestling for a while with Autosave on Mac under the latest

> DOSbox-X (or DOSbox-X-X?) install.

>

>

> If it is saving, I don't know where those files are going. They are not

> in my XY,  and AUTOSAV* only returns a  months-old saved file.  There is

> no  AUTOSAV** ongoing, only ones saved from the previous eras.

>

>    Help?

>

> JP

 

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