DP Question (kind of urgent)

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chrispick
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Post by chrispick »

zed wrote:I had forgotten about the Flush Undo History portion of the remedy. Once I flushed the undo history and resaved the file (where I had already merged all the suspect audio tracks) the file size went back down from 322MB to only 1.2MB. That's more like it!(
Wow.
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Post by zed »

Frodo wrote:Oh, man-- taking the Undo History count down to 20-30 events or so as a default was something I started doing almost from the time Undo History was introduced.
Hmmmmmm. Well I do have DP set up to automatically prune anything not touched for 2 hours. 2 hours worth of undos does not seem to cause me problems or to increase the file size significantly under normal circumstances (especially if I'm just editing MIDI).

Perhaps I should change my pruning preferences when I am recording and edge editing a lot of audio... I think I might try that. I almost never go back farther than a couple of undos anyway.
chrispick wrote:Wow.
Wow is right. :shock:
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Post by Frodo »

zed wrote:Hmmmmmm. Well I do have DP set up to automatically prune anything not touched for 2 hours. 2 hours worth of undos does not seem to cause me problems or to increase the file size significantly under normal circumstances (especially if I'm just editing MIDI).
Now, Zed:

We can't even trust the postal service to get you a tiny package in less than two weeks. There's therefore no trusting DP's prune features 100%. So, shave your Undo History default to 50 at most, probably closer to 25 events.

Besides-- of all the wonderful fruits in the world, prunes are the absolute worst of the bunch!!!

Your can "prune" all you want-- but people only grin when things are "peachy". :wink:
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