Image editing can be tedious work and as such it can be very
annoying if you lose your work due to a power outage or system error. Chasys Draw IES Artist helps you avert possible disaster by automatically saving copies
of your work at regular intervals. These are only discarded if you properly shutdown the
program. Should a power outage occur, the copies will still be on disk and will
be detected next time you start Chasys Draw IES Artist.
The autosave feature is asynchronous, which is to say that it
does not interrupt your work; it operates in the background without your
knowledge. This makes it very fast and reliable.
You can set the autosave interval using the Configure menu to any value between 5 seconds and 20 minutes in 5-second steps. The exact frequency of autosave depends on a variety of factors, including the size of the image, disk speed and the power state of the computer.
When Chasys
Draw IES Artist detects that it is running on a computer that is being powered by a battery, the autosave cycle may be slowed down to save on battery power and to take advantage of the lower risk of power-loss. When remaining battery capacity is between 100% and 10%, the interval will be multiplied by a factor of between 1.5 and 4.0. When battery capacity falls below 10%, the set interval will be used as is because a computer that is critically low on power can shut down at any time.
System Requirements
The autosave buffers (space on your hard-drive where Chasys Draw IES Artist stores autosave information) can be quite large – sometimes as
large as 500MB or more per session. For this reason, you should ensure that you have
adequate free space on your installation drive (or custom TEMP drive if you’ve defined one), especially if you work on
several images simultaneously. I recommend at least 2GB free space on a fast hard-drive.
Low disk space can dramatically reduce the performance of your drives. To get the best performance out of your machine with
this or any other software, select fast drives and maintain a reasonable
amount of free space on them.
