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mzigaib
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How can I make auto-save on as a default when I start up Houdini?
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Ondrej
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Add “autosave on” to either your 123.cmd or 456.cmd file.
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Hi, thanks for this.

I just wanted to make a note here just in-case I forget the method in the future.

Windows:
  1. Go to your Documents/HoudiniX.X
  2. Create a “scripts” folder.
  3. Inside the scripts folder, create a 123.cmd (or also a 456.cmd) file - using notepad will do.
  4. Add “autosave on” for the files (without quotes).

    So far, that is how it worked on my Win10, Houdini Indie 15
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Hi !

How do you do that on linux ?

I tried to make a 456.py file in script folder with this content, as founded in another forum but it didn't work:

import hou
hou.appendSessionModuleSource('''hou.hscript(“autosave on”)''')

Any clue ?
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peteski
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It's a bit silly that it's an option that you have to set each session(if you want to use it).
It's a conspiracy to get us into writing 456 files!

One thing though, auto backup has never worked for me. I'm on OSX, maybe that's it??
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peteski
It's a bit silly that it's an option that you have to set each session(if you want to use it).
It's a conspiracy to get us into writing 456 files!

One thing though, auto backup has never worked for me. I'm on OSX, maybe that's it??
Why 456?
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It's in the doc's.
456.cmd or 456.py will be executed when the user loads a hip file.

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/locations.html#startup [www.sidefx.com]
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SWest
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While you're at it, add a line that creates a new folder (maybe today's date) and saves your file there because I don't think auto save will work unless you first do that.

Here's some Py for your shelf

# AUTOSAVE TOGGLE

autoSave = hou.getPreference('autoSave')

if autoSave == '1':
  hou.setPreference('autoSave','0')
  hou.ui.displayMessage('Autosave is now disabled')
if autoSave == '0':
  hou.setPreference('autoSave','1')
  hou.ui.displayMessage('Autosave is now active')
Edited by SWest - 2023年8月9日 07:00:40
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Jonathan de Blok
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If you place the afterSceneSave handler, linked below, in the same scripts folder it will do some housekeeping only keeping a certain number of backups, see source to set the number to keep. (make sure to keep the exact filename, houdini uses that to identify it's function)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pv3v2rm1gnhovy6cj23hv/afterscenesave.py?rlkey=608r3wn14kx89zvs746najcet&dl=0 [www.dropbox.com]
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