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SASloan Anderson26/11/2013

Hi all,

I'm really hoping others have experienced this. I've had this happen on three separate occasions where I'm editing a part, and hit Ctrl + Z to undo a feature or edit I was toying with, only to have it suddenly CONTINUE to undo every step I've made since my last save-- which often can be several time-consuming features, thinking, "I'll avoid the 7-8min save wait time and just finish this LAST feature before saving..." (I know, I know, I should probably be saving more frequently, but that's not what this post is about). There's no way to stop it mid-stride, and once it has reverted the file to its original state, there's NO WAY to Ctrl + Y and redo to recover the work.

I'm absolutely amazed that a "feature" like this would even exist in the software, and can't find any logical benefit to reverting when you could do so much more quickly by simply re-opening the file without saving. Is it perhaps linked a certain number of Ctrl + Z's in a row (i.e., say I hit Ctrl + Z three times, it triggers a complete revert?)?

This is so highly frustrating and I can't seem to even pinpoint what it is I'm doing to trigger this.  Any ideas? Is there a way to turn this completely useless and destructive "feature" off as a part of the functioning User Interface?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

--Sloan