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Saving dependencies in the project is a really critical little menu item and yet, it is so easily overlooked. Even though I always want that, I sometimes start a new scene and forget that I have to go and tick that menu item, and that could end in disaster. This option should be a user configurable choice in the preferences that remains on always, unless the user switches it off. That would be much safer.

And while I am here, I hope you can change the close dialogue box to the standard dialogue as used on the Mac in every other application. It just causes momentary confusion because it appears to ask the opposite question.

Thanks!

It's a matter of preference I guess, I'm happy it's not ticked by default, cause I don't need it that often. But that's just my workflow.
I guess the problem is that the TVPP files sometimes get huge if you choose to save the dependencies and for unexperienced users it would propably beeing more problematic to get this huge files than relink their dependencies.

David_Fine wrote: And while I am here, I hope you can change the close dialogue box to the standard dialogue as used on the Mac in every other application. It just causes momentary confusion because it appears to ask the opposite question.

+1

That's on our todo list

I can see that there is merit in the choice when, for instance, you have a large BG which you use in multiple scenes. Maybe best to refer to it rather than have every scene own the large BG file in multiples. My original suggestion was to have a preference choice anyway, but I think it should be there so that you can choose the default behaviour, but still be able to override that default if you choose to. So I would set the pref to always save dependencies, but then be able to override that when I have large BG files involved. In that case, I would keep all my BG files on one BG folder.

So here's a question: If I save dependencies for a project and then, after having done that, switch that off and add a BG, do the existing files saved before the BG was added remain within the project file, but from then on, any further files do not? I would hope so.