Thank you Windows ... NOT!

[lionkingcmsl]

I was planning to post a render to Render A Day that I left cooking over night.
It's a complex scene and will take about 4 hours to render. When I checked on it this morning I was greeted with the log in screen for Win 7! WTF?!? I logged in a found that Win 7 did an automatic update and required a system restart. Damn! Well, Vue does automatic saves, so the scene wasn't lost, anyway I saved it before I started the render. I restarted Vue and it asked if I wanted to restore the last session. I said yes, hoping that it saved the "resume render" info. No dice.

So here I sit waiting for another scene to render, and I'll try the one I wanted to do tonight.

Funny thing is I've been having issues with that one scene. It rendered, but it had the e-on water mark, which it shouldn't have. So I had to shut down Vue and start over, then the above happened. Maybe someone is trying to tell me they don't want that scene rendered. :=/

Comments

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Ah you left win7 unattended with unsaved data? Dangerous, as you now see. Don't do updates and then walk away because it'll give you a 10 minute count before doing the restart (if it needs one.) This is fine if you are there, because you can delay it. But if you aren't there to delay it...

Leave the updates for the last thing you do in the night. That works better.

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

The data was saved. It was the fact that the in process/finished render was lost. More of a hassle than anything else. :=/

I didn't do the update, it did itself.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

You might want to change the automatic-immediate update in your preferences then. I download automatically, but I install manually, for that exact reason. I don't want windows to start changing stuff around while I have programs running that use it, causing BSOD issues.

[skipai.livejournal.com]

Automation just does it anyways, even if you are working at the computer at the same time. I would turn updates off and check for it manually.

Saves a lot of hassle, that and you can usually see if there's a bad update which Microsoft has done in the past that actually broke something.

[skipai.livejournal.com]

Do me a favour and turn off automated updates. You can still check and update every week if need be but windows is a pain in the rear when it comes to automation.

[carlfoxmarten]

Yup. There's a good reason I've completely disabled updates...
(I hate it when it restarts the computer without asking, too)