Saving Error!

It's a known issue, should be fixed in V2.

jffe

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those of us who have lost 50 or so filters from this, tend to learn to back up our filters at regular intervals, regardless!

By backing up filters, do you mean saving different versions of the filter under different names? I think I'll have to do that, not the end of the world to replace the filter I lost...curiously this problem only started for me yesterday...

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It's a known issue, should be fixed in V2

When's V2 coming and what will it have?

It sounds like I had same problems just this last month. I was finally issued new key...and it fix my problem...possibly we had a deferent variation of the same problem because mine did not coincide with length of time FF was running…. And yes I know how bad it is to lose 2-3 hours of work and can’t even send a bug report. Last month I worked on 6 filters and not one was able to go through because of the errors then once the problem was fixed.
The last filter I worked on was (specifically for “disabled” people) denied.
We cannot accept the filter you submitted
Unfortunately, we cannot accept the filter Parallel Nebulas you have submitted to the Filter Library. It takes too long to render. Try to optimize it for speed and resubmit it.
Darn the luck…I knew it was a long rendering filter on a few of the presets…but not all of them…my number one preset was longest rendering but was one hell of piece of ‘generated art’ which is what I designed it to be…so I thought the longer rendering issue might be over-looked…so about 20 some hours of work down the drain. And now that my trail period has run out I have no way to optimize it for speed to resubmit it .
But that is another thread I guess.

Hey Craig how are you doing bud.
yes I did apply for my last extension...unfortunately we could not fix the problem until a bout a week before time ran out...like I said- I had been working on 6 filters and when I went to save work and started typing key words & descriptions
I got an error message and lost every thing. (Even stuff that was saved previously)
anywho Bella shot me a new key and problem was gone...however the few days I had left I could only get 1 filter done....lol It was to be my Crème da la Crème.
I had been working on it since I started FF...It is a BIG filter I only had about a day or two left to work on it but I had to submit it prematurely…and as my previous letter states it was denied...if there is a way someone here would be willing to optimize it and submit it for me that would be Great! How do we do that? And to show my Newbie degree how does the transfer of HU points work? Assuming HU = High Usage... guess I should see if there is an article on that.
Thanks again Craig for all your help!

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Kraellin wrote: and i dont really know how the transfer of HU's is done, but you need FF's help on it, so try the contact form and ask them.

----They don't do that any more. It's all or nothing, ie = give FF to someone and hope they'll repay you when they get 3 Hu's.

jffe

Added: Not that anyone asked ha-ha, but I have done that twice (made that repay me deal), both offered, and one actually did it (well, I let the other person off the hook since they were kind of distant in a way), and gave FF to someone else for me.

We've released a hotfix for this (just download the installer from our download page). From now on, the Editor won't save to the original filter directly. It will first save the filter into a temporary .ffxml file in My Filters, and if the save was successful, it will copy the temp file over the original filter. Should the Editor crash before the saving, your original filter will stay unmodified.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: We've released a hotfix for this (just download the installer from our download page). From now on, the Editor won't save to the original filter directly. It will first save the filter into a temporary .ffxml file in My Filters, and if the save was successful, it will copy the temp file over the original filter. Should the Editor crash before the saving, your original filter will stay unmodified.

Mui appreciado!

Thank you Vlad!

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Crapadilla wrote: You can't directly transfer HUs (i.e. reward points) to a different user account, but you can certainly claim a 3 point reward in the name of a friend and also have the license sent to a friend's email rather than your own. I've done that a few times already, and it works perfectly well.

Yup, I was going to say that there would have to be some way of doing this... (Where there's a will...) yet getting paid back from that individual is still a risk. But then if you consider them as a friend that ‘should’ be a mute point. And as FF takes off and gets even bigger there is the risk of an unsavory character or two slipping in...So those people who are more charitable then others may end up getting the shaft. I am not trying to sound pessimistic. On the brighter side that is the only problem I see arising from this…and I personally see it as a bonding thing, as a way of expanding the “family” or for those that are looking into FF they see what kind of community that they would becoming a part of.
Personally for me as I read the forums it sealed for me that this is more then just a great piece of software…but a group of people that become like a family… Call it a clan, call it a network, or call it a tribe. Whatever you call it, everybody needs one. They laugh, joke around, they are there when there is something you just don’t understand,(thanks Craig!!!!) or when you have problem that is unrelated to FF. ok, ok getting long winded here.

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Crapadilla wrote: [On a side-note: I was also planning to give some Mac licenses away as christmas presents to some friends, but oh well! Wink ]

hmm Good idea Crapadilla..No need to go shopping for that special gift...