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Rant: Cura did the one thing a slicer shouldn't do (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 9 months ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Apart from blow up printers, the one scariest thing for me about a slicer is losing settings. You spend hours getting your printer dialed in, specific profiles per material and then..

You update your slicer software and it all goes away. I have now learned Cura does this. And does this a lot. Forum posts abound about it. Friends recommend I switch to Prusa because it happened to them. Unfortunately too late for me to write down my old settings, and they're apparently not in the ~/.config/cura folder anymore. Nice.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most people learn why you should back up everything the hard way I'm afraid.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The problem isn't backups. The files are there and in my dotfiles repo. The problem is Cura decided to ignore the version 0.0 folder in 5.x, which is used in 4.x, and the profiles are no longer compatible. During upgrade, it doesn't pull those files and convert. To me, this is a major oversight for something where tweaking profiles is a huge part of the quality of the output.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree. Cura has bit me more than once with losing my settings. To Lmaydev's point, it's hard to "back things up" when you don't know where the settings are stored and sometimes you don't know you need to be Sherlock Holmes until it's too late.

[–] the_third@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Full backup of home daily, full backup of root every week.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I work in IT and I get that, but we also should have some reasonable expectations here for how a program should handle updates. Not losing key configuration files is definitely one of those.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that is seriously terrible application behavior.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah that really sucks!