FR: return to previous state of project // The Unlimited Undo Orchestra

[tiger001]

jo,

i was inspired by a post you made about timeline/history of MuLab where you mentioned that you had a major redo of the architecture of the Undo/Redo system

would it be possible/easy to revert to a previous state of a project?

sometimes, i'm working on a song and find the route/path i'm in not really rewarding and would like to start again, from a few weeks or months back
of course, i don't make several/different saves of my project, so the only possibility i see to go back in time is to undo what i did
practically i can't press ctrl+Z 'indefinitely', so it would be much more practical if i could choose from a 'target list' that lists (at least dates) of previously saved iterations

would this be something that could be made to work?

(premise that no samples were destroyed/deleted in the process , or no audio streams were permanently altered in a destructive way of course)

[MuTools]

I think you can easily get that by simply saving your project regularly using a different date appendixes:
MyProject-20250817.MuProject
MyProject-20250829.MuProject
MyProject-20250915.MuProject
MyProject-20251022.MuProject
MyProject-20251130.MuProject
...

[pljones]

Maybe there could be an option to take a sequentially numbered backup every N-th history entry, with the history stored from the previous backup to that point along with the project? The problem generally comes in midst of a creative flow -- when you don't even think "I should take backups" -- you realise you had the idea a little while back and now it's ruined...

[tiger001]

agree

i'm a little afraid of doing auto or manual save as - as i'm afraid these will create a lot of overhead on my system (of double samples/streams etc) whereas a list would be consequent (my naming is not always that) and easy (to choose from)