Yeah...CTRL-Y in PS...I have a button on my mouse for CTRL-Z and CTRL-Y and press them almost automatically... Anyway...I remembered one...not even a Noob-Mistake, but infinitely stupider....I once worked on a scene, Max froze on save, so my scene-file was corrupt...I was happy to see that Autoback saved just seconds…
It's more like it crashes every 2 min, when you open a corrupt file and it continues to be corrupt... heh. To be honest you're on a prehistoric version of max which was notorious for corrupting its recovery files when it saved while crashing. Since you're on max8 you should be opening the latest /autoback file not the…