Caution: AutoSave may restore older version (X8)!

[tanguero]

After doing my last edit prior to rendering, I saved (Ctrl-S) (just as well). Then clicked on the Share tab and VS hung and then crashed. When I restarted, it offered to restore my project (unnecessarily, since I had just saved), which I accepted to see what was going on. Sure enough, the restored version did NOT have the latest changes, and seemed to be the snapshot from the last 10-min autosave.

So the bug is that an explicit successful Save and lack of changes since then does not get factored into the offer to "Restore from Autosave" algorithm. Now some could consider this a feature (suppose the crash corrupted the saved file somehow?--unlikely but possible--why not give the user the choice?), but then it should at least give a warning that the autosave is older than the saved file.

Meanwhile, this is just something to be aware of. You may want to save any autosave-restored projects under a different name until you've determined that it really is better than the last saved version you have (VS helps here by opening the autosaved version as "Untitled" so you have to specify an explicit destination when you save).

[asik1]

It's a matter of work experience,
First, set autosave to 3 or 4 minutes
Second, in case you restore a crashed project, immediately save it with different name like "My beloved restored project 001.vsp"