autosave

[jan]

It would be helpful if there would be some kind of partial autosave during long calculations (e.g. photo alignment & building geometry) so that a partial result (if possible) will not get lost even if the computer falls out for a reason. In that way one could calculate further from that partial result at a later time.

This morning for no apparent agisoft was closed, while it was running yesterday the whole day and the whole night to building geometry, no I have no result whatsoever while I know the computer calculated for at least 7 hours.

The reason the Agisoft closed has probably nothing to do with Photoscan, but anyhow now I can start again from scratch with Photoscan.

[jan]

anyhow thanks for the batch process and autosave after each full process step,

which I just discovered...(my fault)

a nice feature! and more or less answers my request.

[Mycobiont]

I too, have just discovered the autosave feature within batch processing.  Quite a relief! The IT strategy at my work frequently involves mandatory reboots without warning - often over night or over weekends when I try to get large processes going.  I can't count how many times I've gotten back to the office expecting a new point cloud only to discover the computer rebooted.  I can't even tell if the process completed, because I didn't know about the hidden autosave.

So my feature request is to simply make an autosave standard at the end of every time consuming item in the workflow menu.

Additionally, I think that the Align Photos process could be split into two segments(?): key point identification and point matching.  For projects involving hundreds of images, the ability to autosave after point identification and restart processes at the point matching step would be a time-saver!