Originally Posted by: Dial_Tone 
Saving a prop saves the changes to that prop and sends those changes the server.
Closing the prop editor also does this for all open props and clears all editing flags.
Re-opening the prop editor reloads all of the props and their settings within a given property.
Saving each prop after editing (clicking the lock symbol) is all you need to do to save the changes to that prop.
You should periodically close the prop editor and reopen it to refresh the prop list and reset any editing flags.
-DT
Hello Dial_Tone,
okay, thank you for clearing this to me, so my knowledge was somewhat out of date.
Looking at your position, I finally know where I stand and what I have to do in the future to be on the safe side after the decoration work is done.
Originally Posted by: BB_Licious All the steps I take to save my work have already been mentioned, but for what it's worth, these are the things I do:
-- Make a practice of releasing the prop (clicking the lock symbol) after editing it,
-- Closing prop editor periodically,
-- At the end of the day/night (if I'm done working on it for that day), I always do a "safe save". That is, I save it as a
layout and label it the name of the layout plus "Safe Save", so I know that once it's done, I can delete the "safe save" version.
I try and do this daily. Yes, it's a pain but less of one than if you have to redo your work.
Diving, the instructions you pasted from the layouts tab...I do believe those are outdated but have never been removed. It's not
necessary any longer to log out then back in before or after saving.
Hello BB_Licious,
apart from the naming, your way is exactly the way i've always gone so far, in between closing and reopening the prop editor every now and then after all the edited props have been closed.
If there were a lot of changes, such as on days when I have a lot of time and the decoration work just slips through my hands and goes really fast, then I have always granted myself the luxury of going somewhere else at short notice, saving the layout, always with a consecutive number, and then applying it directly.
Then I would go back again to continue working.
Thank you all for your helpful answers and yes, obviously the still readable note on the layout page is obsolete. But I'd rather know exactly than just believe it, to jokingly say it with my instructor: "Sweetheart, the churches are responsible for questions of faith, in nursing you have to know something, believing something may not be enough."
Stay safe and be well you all, divingA
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