Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> Not a bug.  User configuration error (slow system and network).
> 
> Later in the thread a feature request for background saving.  Note that
> background saving is not possible to implement as it would have to guard
> against saving of files that are being rendered as well as delay rendering
> when files needed for the render are still being written to disk.  However,
> it is not possible to determine all files which will be used by a scene
> prior to running it (i.e. files generated by the script and opened by the
> user or files whose name is determined via string functions).  Thus
> background saving would have to disable the "Start Rendering" functions and
> making it not transparent to the user but only _very_ confusing why
> rendering isn't possible.
> 

I understand that, but in most cases it would be perfectly sufficient to
enable background saving only when a render is running. 

BTW, i presume the situation of saving while a scene is being parsed (that
uses this file) is a problematic case anyway.

Christoph

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