Currently the safe studio updates beta feature will only protect you if you open places from within Studio by using the File menu.
My workflow almost never involves opening places from within Studio, and instead involves opening places from file intermittently throughout the entire day while I already have a Studio session open for development on my game. I only ever open new places in Studio from the File menu when I need a blank baseplate for testing something, all other cases I am opening my project files from the Explorer in Windows or files downloaded in Chrome.
Today while working on the Post Approval inbox, I downloaded a repro file and opened it from Chrome, and it killed my development Studio session when Studio updated. Luckily I did not lose any work, but I might have if I was not paranoid about manually saving my work every two minutes.
Please expand the functionality of the safe studio updates feature to cover cases where places are opened from the website or opened from file, instead of only when opened from within Studio.
It would be cool if this could be pulled out of beta sometime too. It’s been an optional beta feature for a pretty long time, are there still problems with it?
Note that despite the staff response merged into this thread below, this is still a problem.
