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Known Participant
February 5, 2024

Auto Save too often

  • February 5, 2024
  • 10 replies
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I'm in the most current Beta of Premiere Pro and Auto -Save will interrupt like two minutes after having just auto-saved even thought my settings are at 12 minutes.

10 replies

Participant
March 3, 2025

ahh well I guess I will just have to live with that then. There is zero chance I can get those removed

Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 27, 2025

>I wonder if those could be the culprit.

Those are our primary suspects. 

Participant
February 27, 2025

So this is a new pc for a new job in a warehouse that follows ITAR Compliance and a myriad of other very strict policies. They do have a dropbox sync and OneDrive throughout the building, and we removed Norton 360 (came stock on pc). 

 

I wonder if those could be the culprit. There is also Sentinel One installed to monitor everything

Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 26, 2025

In your screenshot, we notice that the several-times-a-minute saves in your list have tiny file sizes, compared to the 'full-sized' ones. Normally, when an auto-save fails for any reason, PPro deletes it immediately; the fact that it's not doing that, suggests that you don't have delete privileges at the save location. 

That could also be the result of an access collision; do you have some other process accessing the auto-save directory? Usual suspects = anti-virus programs, Dropbox, OneDrive, any sort of cloud sync.


Participant
February 26, 2025

Ya that just isn't true unfortunately. Most likely a bug, but it exists. I have a screenshot showing the times of the auto saves. I had multiple saves minute after minute. I can try to run OBS studio to hopefully record this behavior but don't really feel like running it while editing my videos. My intervals are set to 8 minutes for the auto save function. Not the 1 minute intervals you see all over the auto save folder

Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 8, 2025

What's the autosave interval, from PPro's Prefs --> Auto-save? 

Is "Auto Save also saves the current project(s)" checked? 

As previously stated, PPro contains zero code to implement some secondary clock, for auto-saving. If user action delays/prevents a previous auto-save, the next one could occur sooner than expected. 

 

Also, PPro contains no code that changes the auto save interval at night time. 🙂

We would LOVE to see a screen movie that shows PPro, with no user interaction, auto-saving at a different interval than that specified in the prefs. 

 

 

Participant
January 8, 2025

This is in the latest 2025 (25.1.0 build)

Participant
January 8, 2025

I also have this issue- weirdly it happens later at night when I've been working all day, but I have my auto-save set to every 20 minutes, but at night it starts to do it as little as 2 minutes apart 

Known Participant
February 5, 2024

So it just happened just now. I looked at the clock at the first save. And it was 4:12. I went to the auto save folder to see it there. It wasn't there, only the one before it at 3:55. Then I went back to the program to do one change and it auto-saved again at 4:13.


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Andrea Stewart

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Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 5, 2024

Bizarre; there's no secondary "alternative" clock in use, for auto saves. If user action delays/prevents a previous auto-save, the next one could occur sooner than expected.

Could you send a screenshot of your auto-save directory, with "date created" shown for the auto-saved .prproj files? 

Known Participant
February 5, 2024

Well, it doesn't show the auto-save happening 2 minutes apart but I experienced this twice or three times now after just starting up the program on different days. I only see one instance in the folder on Jan 30th of this.

Here's the screenshot.

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Andrea Stewart

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