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Intermittently failing test

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Description

There seems to be an intermittent failing test, introduced in the Autosave feature. Here's the failure stack from the[ last failed run](https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/pythonSoftIOC/actions/runs/12115105099/job/33772826165):

```
_____________________ test_context_manager_thread_safety ______________________
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
...
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\_pytest\python.py", line 159, in pytest_pyfunc_call
result = testfunction(**testargs)
File "D:\a\pythonSoftIOC\pythonSoftIOC\tests\test_autosave.py", line 443, in test_context_manager_thread_safety
builder.aOut("PV-FROM-CM")
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\softioc\builder.py", line 59, in aOut
return PythonDevice.ao(name, EGU = EGU, PREC = PREC, **fields)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\softioc\pythonSoftIoc.py", line 117, in __call__
return RecordWrapper(
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\softioc\pythonSoftIoc.py", line 36, in __init__
record.address = '@' + record.name
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\epicsdbbuilder\recordbase.py", line 216, in __setattr__
self.__ValidateField(fieldname, value)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\epicsdbbuilder\recordbase.py", line 227, in __ValidateField
self._validate.ValidFieldValue(fieldname, str(value))
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\cibw-run-4d5mbdhg\cp39-win_amd64\venv-test\lib\site-packages\epicsdbbuilder\dbd.py", line 91, in ValidFieldValue
assert message is None, \
AssertionError: Can't write "@PV-FROM-CM" to field OUT: fldDes not found
```

The issue appears to be coming from epicsdbbuilder, which is why I've raised [this issue there.](https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/epicsdbbuilder/issues/32)

I've attempted to investigate this issue in CI in PR #177 , but have been unable to recreate it so far.

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