Had a nightmare week with takeoff software on a condo job

Last Monday my estimating platform kept freezing during a 45-unit condo takeoff in Phoenix. Lost 3 hours of measurements because the auto-save didn't trigger. Anyone else's software crash right when you need it most?

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taylorcarr4mo ago

Yeah man that auto-save thing is the worst. Bluebeam does the same crap to me all the time. I just set a timer on my phone now to manual save every 10 minutes.

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craig.reese4mo ago

Oh man, tell me about it! Auto-save has betrayed me more times than I care to count. I've lost whole lesson plans because the program decided to "save" right as my laptop battery died. The timer trick is smart, I might have to steal that from you. There's just something about watching those progress bars that makes me nervous, you know?

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tarab544mo ago

Ngl I'm gonna go the other way on this one. Auto-save has saved my bacon more times than I can count, especially back in my early days when I'd get distracted and forget to hit save for like an hour. My old boss had a Dell laptop from 2008 that would just hard crash with zero warning, and auto-save was the only reason he didn't lose entire blueprints. Honestly, I think the real problem is that people blame the feature instead of their own bad habits. If you're relying on auto-save to cover for you not saving manually for 20 minutes, that's on you, not the program.

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