VS Arduino - How to turn off saving the project on each compile

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arduino1 Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Joined: Feb 12^th, 2015	How to turn off saving the project on each compile Sep 9^th, 2020 at 12:08pm	Print Post
	Every time I built the project it is saved. I am using a version controller, which creates new files when they have been changed. So, during a day (or night), I get 100's of changed version files. Is it possible to turn off autosaving? (In the Arduino IDE, it is disabled.)


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2020 at 4:18pm	Print Post
	Hi, Can you please confirm that after each build the date times of the ".vcxproj" files in the project folder have changed? If so please zip and email your vcxproj files or attach here. Thanks


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arduino1 Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Joined: Feb 12^th, 2015	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #2 - Sep 9^th, 2020 at 6:41pm	Print Post
	It appears that just the ino file is saved on each compile, unfortunately in the sketchboook directory. If in Arduino IDE the auto save is disabled, all the compiler files are put to the temp directory, and only on explicitly saving the ino file located in the sketchbook directory is being updated.

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arduino1 Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Joined: Feb 12^th, 2015	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #3 - Sep 15^th, 2020 at 12:21pm	Print Post
	Any comment on that issue?


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2709 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #4 - Sep 15^th, 2020 at 1:46pm	Print Post
	The INO is saved on each build to the sketchbook folder as this is the file which is built. There are currently no options to change this. What version control system are you using out of interest?


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arduino1 Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Joined: Feb 12^th, 2015	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #5 - Sep 15^th, 2020 at 2:01pm	Print Post
	I am using https://beanland.net.au/autover/ It is not widely used, but it works very easy and reliable. I could disable the Watcher there within, but that's less convenient since one easily forgets to switch it on again. In Arduino IDE, if I switch off "saving on each compiling", but before exiting I am being asked to save or not to save. Would be nice to have that in Vmicro...


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: How to turn off saving the project on each compile Reply #6 - Oct 14^th, 2020 at 5:11pm	Print Post
	*This Topic was moved here from Installation & Troubleshooting* [move by] Visual Micro.**


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