REAPER's autosave/backup system has fatal flaws, time to fix them!

it is neither stupid nor lazy to ask for autosave of unsaved projects. Who the hell saves everything right away?

Reaper does in fact autosave unsaved projects. Just tested it again to be sure. This one we already have. :) But you do have to have autosave enabled and it is disabled by default. Kinda hard to defend that default. Reaper has a few backwards default preferences like this. Like who thought it was a good idea to have ctrl-click / right-click disabled by default? There's menus to see there ya know!

Ah! So it isn't Reapers fault this is happening. Reminded me why I dumped what little EW play-based stuff I had a long time ago. Doesnt really matter how good - sounding a plug is if it doesn't run properly. I dumped most of IKMMs stuff and all the Play libraries I had purely because of this. And your info on iLok issues is out of date. All working fine here and has been for some time.

+1 to the OP here. all good ideas.

It makes perfect sense to tell / ask a user... "There is a newer version of this file, would you like to open it?" ... which is why some software does exactly that. Sometimes you work on a song and for some reason (crash, whatever) your last auto save is the newest file, the file with the most work in it. Why wouldn't any modern software know that and load it for you if you say "Yes", instead of making you go manually look for files to compare date and time stamps? It's kind of a no-brainer really since the entire root purpose of software is to make things easier. If a developer isn't doing that (which probably isn't rocket science) then maybe it's the developer who is lazy, not the user. :)