[1] Is it unwise to set the timer from 15 min. to 0.5 minutes?
Not sure if unwise but seems unnecessary…and possibly could impact general performance/stability if you’re constantly saving.
[2] Is my new “Maximum Backup Files” setting of only 1 a bit too extreme?
Is there any reason to have 10 of them hanging out in all my project folders if i can’t access them
If that one file is corrupted you will have lost your whole project…in this case you can start working backwards through them until you find one that works. You can open them from Cubase file menu or you can rename them to cpr. It’s not something you’re likely to need to do often but you might be very happy the one time you can.
[4] How do you guys and gals set these two preferences? and why?
What happened to [3]??
I leave as default…but I always do a manual save after recording a take or doing any tricky editing etc.