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Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

When I'm doing important work in TBC, I think to myself, "what would Jesus do?" 

Jesus saves. CTRL+S

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

When I'm doing important work in TBC, I think to myself, "what would Jesus do?" 

Jesus saves. CTRL+S

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Considering the time to save in some of my projects, I'm glad that I'm not regularly interrupted mid workflow. Having said that, I have the Save Reminder set to 30min.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

No other software that saves automatically or at least saves a copy in case of a crash interrupts you while it saves. It can take 30 seconds to save in TBC which is ridiculous and is the main reason I don't save every 5 mins.

The price goes up every year, but you need macros for basic functionality and QOL improvements to work around the outdated/neglected core of TBC. It's annoying. 

Considering the time to save in some of my projects, I'm glad that I'm not regularly interrupted mid workflow. Having said that, I have the Save Reminder set to 30min.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

If I was in charge, I would not prioritize an auto-save function. I would move all point cloud processing to a cloud-based app and keep TBC lighter weight with less bloat from utilities and functionality only used by a small percentage of users.

i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Are you sure it's a small percentage of users? I don't use point clouds/photogrammetry/mobile mapping at all but it seems that's where 95% of all development in TBC has been focused for at least the past 5 years.

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Matthew Judice

Original Message:
Sent: 08-09-2025 19:19
From: Nelson Hays
Subject: Implement Autosave

If I was in charge, I would not prioritize an auto-save function. I would move all point cloud processing to a cloud-based app and keep TBC lighter weight with less bloat from utilities and functionality only used by a small percentage of users.

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Nelson Hays

Original Message:
Sent: 08-09-2025 15:47
From: ian bissonnette
Subject: Implement Autosave

i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

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ian bissonnette

Original Message:
Sent: 08-06-2025 07:20
From: Matthew Judice
Subject: Implement Autosave

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

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Matthew Judice
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i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Good morning,

I am one of the trainer here at Trimble. Although not technically an auto-save feature there is an option to have TBC prompt you to save at regular intervals.

This is one of the first thing we discuss during our training session and highly recommend setting this up for the exact reason you mentions below. Nothing worst to spend hours digitizing drawings only to lose all that work for reasons out of your control.

To set this up:

• Go to the Support menu and select option
• Go to the Project Management section
• Check the Enable reminder
• Select your time interval from the drop down from one of the available options ranging from 5 to 60 minutes
• Click OK

At the set interval, TBC will prompt you to save your work, the first time, if it's a new project you will be able to chose the name and location, basically, bringing in the Save As dialog. After that, it will simply save it over the existing file.

Have a great day,

Patrick Malaison Senior Customer Training Specialist Civil Construction Software 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH 03801 United States 603.380.1996 Mobile patrick_malaison@trimble.com www.trimble.com This email may contain confidential information that is intended only for the listed recipient(s) of this email. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe you have received this email in error, please immediately delete this email and any attachments, and inform me via reply email.

i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Good morning,

I am one of the trainer here at Trimble. Although not technically an auto-save feature there is an option to have TBC prompt you to save at regular intervals.

This is one of the first thing we discuss during our training session and highly recommend setting this up for the exact reason you mentions below. Nothing worst to spend hours digitizing drawings only to lose all that work for reasons out of your control.

To set this up:

• Go to the Support menu and select option
• Go to the Project Management section
• Check the Enable reminder
• Select your time interval from the drop down from one of the available options ranging from 5 to 60 minutes
• Click OK

At the set interval, TBC will prompt you to save your work, the first time, if it's a new project you will be able to chose the name and location, basically, bringing in the Save As dialog. After that, it will simply save it over the existing file.

Have a great day,

Patrick Malaison Senior Customer Training Specialist Civil Construction Software 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH 03801 United States 603.380.1996 Mobile patrick_malaison@trimble.com www.trimble.com This email may contain confidential information that is intended only for the listed recipient(s) of this email. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe you have received this email in error, please immediately delete this email and any attachments, and inform me via reply email.

i fully agree something needs to change. it can take a half hour to an hour to load a point cloud into tbc and then you start to work and have a crash and have to start over. what a waist of time. often i will run point cloud classification overnight because it can take hours. often i will come back and have tbc crashed or windows rebooted. either could be avoided with an auto save. 

we are in an era where the tech is smart enough. tbc should be able to auto save in the background while you work. if you are doing an intense procedure then force it to auto save first and again after if needed or delay till you are doing less intense tasks and it can autosave in the background. 

autocad s system has saved our team many many times, many many hours of rework. 

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.

Out of the many programs I use on a daily basis, TBC is the only one that does not have autosave - it's also by far the most likely to experience random crashes when working with larger projects. I've lost countless hours of work over the years because of this.

What are we doing here? Add autosave to the program.