Dave Huettl

Peter, Thanks for your analysis and confirmation that autosave will NOT delete any files other than the oldest autosave files. That makes perfect sense and is very reassuring. We agree that there seems to be a timing factor during which there is ambiguity as to which filename will be saved for an .rcd file (autosasvexxx.rcd or username.rcd). I don't understand why the same ambiguity does not occur with the .FLT or .WX files. It is a mystery to me why the .RCD filenames often clash whereas .FLT/.WX files never do. Autosave always creates/deletes the appropriate Autosavexxx.FLT and Autosavexxx.WX files. Likewise, a users ; saved flight always produces the user named .FLT and .WX file but only the .RCD file suffers from being overwritten because of the timing. Losing the users name on the .RCD file can cause a sim pilot much unwanted house keeping of the /myflts folder. I haven't seen many posts on the forums complaining about it though. It is easy enough to work around, but is frustrating to the newbie trying to follow RCv4's fantastic tutorials which require many user saved flights. Thanks for your attention on this one. Dave

Anyone else having a problem with Autosave and RCv4 .RCD file saves clashing? Could Peter perhaps have a fix for this? As a new Radar Contact v.4.01 user I have encountered problems saving flights while Autosave is running in FS2002. Saving a flight using the ; key will create a set of user named .FLT .WX and .RCD files, however, if the save occurs close in time to an Autosave file operation, the .RCD file created by the user is deleted along with the oldest AutosaveXXX.RCD file. The user named .FLT and .WX files remain in the /myflts folder, but the .RCD has been deleted which makes it impossible for Radar Contact 4.01 to recall the user named .RCD I am using FSUIPC vers. 3.6.0 and Autosave v. 1.5.0.1 and have been working around the problem by editing the Autosave.cfg file as follows to minimize the occurance of the conflict: [user] Interval=60 Files=0 AlsoSave=Restart 3 Minutes Ago AlsoInterval=180