The mention of auto-backup is an example of the problems facing any software dev team.

Someone says 'How about auto-backup?' and out of 10 people, 3 or 4 think it's a great idea and the others all think it's bloat.

So how do the developers choose which functions they'll implement? Because it's 100% guaranteed that no matter what they put in P8, some people will approve of some features and some people will hate those same ones. As in 'You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time'

Well, there is an answer, at least a partial one - options. Every feature (wherever possible) should have the option to turn it on/off, and if possible, be user-definable. As DpHoadley said, 3d max has an auto-backup, but it also has the option to use it or not, and to set the number of minutes between each back-up. That's the only sensible way to do it. If you want it, it's there. If you don't, switch it off.

I've contributed numerous feature requests to Daz Studio's development and I've always urged the dev team to provide user options for everything, (which they usually do). Because no matter how cool or essential I think a feature is, I can be pretty sure that the next person in line won't agree. I remember mentioning to someone in close contact with Poser that one of the worst things about it (for me) was that it can't save or delete multiple props without a lot of faffing about. This person expressed surprise and told me it had never even been considered an issue!

The bottom line is that we all work in different ways with different types of figures and scenes, so there is no one-size-fits-all software that will make us all happy. All the Poser people can do is add what they think is right, based on their own common sense and the various polls they've run.

Although, (IMO) they really need to add a log file and error/crash reporter. LOL.

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