The slowest I recall was 200 b/s on dial up. I was in what they now call 'IT' from the late sixties. I can guarantee that not a single soul back then had the slightest idea how far things have progressed today. It's incredible.
I agree that it's crazy to autosave everything without a choice. I just ran into this very problem. I've been working on a route which I have many hours invested. I chose undo to remove my latest route addition and Base Camp deleted my entire route instead of the last route addition. When I chose redo to get my route back, I got a very messed up version of my route. Undo = no route. Redo = scrambled route. I thought OK I didn't save so I'll quit Base Camp and start from where I left it yesterday evening. To my surprise, Base Camp autosaved the deleted route over my previous work. All that was left were a couple way points. The route and hours of work long gone. Very frustration. Very poor design or should I say poor design philosophy. I can't think of many, if any, applications that work this way. Most modern, properly designed, DB apps give the user the ability to roll back to a previous version.
I was hoping to find a better answer but much to my surprise there isn't one. I guess I'll try exporting my work often and see if that works.
I wouldn't say crazy. It's an architectural decision. Software, just like a building or other structure, has an architecture--that is a design philosophy. The implementation of that architecture is a different matter.
For example one may not like a building (the architecture) yet it may be well built and accomplish it's task. Or one may like the building but find it is shoddily built.
I do not like the architecture of BC. I dislike database applications--at least all the ones I've come across. That said I think it has been programmed, that is built, well. However others hate the idea of opening files and then saving them etc. That is too "technical". Each to his/her own.
If you prefer MapSource do what I do and keep using it. If BaseCamp is more your cup of tea use it.
Nearly every database works like that....
Try to use C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\BaseCamp\Database\x.x\AllData.gdb.bak by renaming that file to AllData.gdb 9in the same folder...
