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Puppy autosaves like after 30 min. I managed to in effect turn it off by changing it to like 700 min or similar.

Now I installed puppy on a new computer but cant find the place to make the change on how often the autosave is done.

How can I change how often it saves?

What specific Puppy version would be good info to provide!!

I will assume you are booting from Puppy on a USB flash drive, so you are running in pupmode 13.

Most Puppies.
Look in menu->System->Puppy Event Manager->Save Session
Set save interval to 0 (zero).
If you want to. Also check ask to save at shutdown.

Now auto save is turned off.
The only time stuff is written to the save is when you click on the desktop save icon or shutdown/reboot and select save.

Keep this in mind when you make changes or add stuff.
If you forget to save. The changes are lost, when you shutdown and do not save.

This is a good way to try something to see how it works.
As long as you do not save. It is only stored in a memory ramdisk.
does not work or do not like it.
Reboot not saving and whatever it was is gone.

Now I installed puppy on a new computer

If you installed to an internal hard drive.
Puppy is running in pupmode 12.
The save is in a constant read/write mode.
You change anything, add something, etc....
It is written to the save as you do whatever.
No delay in when writes to save are done.

Puppy Event Manager->Save Session
All options will be grayed out and not select-able, running in pupmode 12.

bigpup wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:00 am

Now I installed puppy on a new computer

If you installed to an internal hard drive.
Puppy is running in pupmode 12.
The save is in a constant read/write mode.
You change anything, add something, etc....
It is written to the save as you do whatever.
No delay in when writes to save are done.

Puppy Event Manager->Save Session
All options will be grayed out and not select-able, running in pupmode 12.

You can force pupmode 13 by changing the pmedia to 'pmedia=ataflash' on the "kernel" line in menu.lst,
then change the pupsave properties same as a thumbdrive.

Yeah I did a usb install, and the instructions worked great. Thanks.

But I may do a hard drive install for a friend in a week or so, so I wanna be able to do it there also. So I searched for the menu.lst file with pFind and it found nothing. Where can I find the menu.lst file? Or is it only available when one has installed to a hard drive?

Usually the file menu.lst is in the root directory on the USB flash drive.
At least if Grub4DOS is installed as the boot loader.
However, it must be somewhere on the boot partition, no matter what boot loader is used.
Pfind won't find it under the system files.
Pfind searching in / should find it definitely, as long as the boot partition is mounted.

Mike3 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:14 am Yeah I did a usb install, and the instructions worked great. Thanks.

But I may do a hard drive install for a friend in a week or so, so I wanna be able to do it there also. So I searched for the menu.lst file with pFind and it found nothing. Where can I find the menu.lst file? Or is it only available when one has installed to a hard drive?

The boot loader menu config file depends on the boot loader you install when you do the install to the hard drive.
Grub2 boot loader uses grub.cfg
syslinux boot loader uses syslinux.cfg
Grub4dos boot loader uses menu.lst

The Puppy installed on the USB flash drive is probably using syslinux boot loader or grub.

Mike3, you never did say which Puppy you're using. It might make a difference.

It shouldn't make much of a difference which puppy you have...

Go to the "Puppy Event Manager" .. If you're running with the right pupmode (13 IIRC), you can change it there...


You need to set the boot modes so Puppy thinks its running off a USB, not a HD .. Can't remember the option name...


...which is why years back, Pizzagood, myself and others added a popup to the shutdown process which _asked_ if you wanted to save or not.. the popup was enable/disabled by a setting in the puppy event manager..

I'm currently looking at updating my boot params so that my session is only saved manually (be me), or when shutting down (via the popup which asks first) ... That is my preferred setting for "dev" puppies - ones that I'm hacking away at..