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Inspiring
September 28, 2022
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BACKGROUND AUTO-SAVE, Auto-save should not interrupt your workflow

  • September 28, 2022
  • 58 replies
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The title says it all. Auto-save should function in the background and NOT pop up with an annoying progress bar every time it runs. Gets REALLY bad on large project files when auto-saves take up to a min every single time.

Total workflow killer. Should be just like taking snapshots of your project in the background while continue working.

The dialog even pops up and steals focus from another app you're in.

    58 replies

    jackthegiantkiller
    Inspiring
    October 12, 2023

    Seriously, Adobe. How about you bother acknowledging this years long request? Can you at least mark it considered? Why is this one request so impossible for your team?

    el hoozn
    Participating Frequently
    September 4, 2023

    September 2023, and I still have to chose between being interrupted every couple of minutes, and struggling to get into the zone because AE could crash any minute for no apparent reason and I having to redo 20 minutes worth of animation work. lol

     

    Seriously, guys: Ps, Ai and others are able to "recover" files after a crash for years now, which means the highly futuristic technology called "background auto save" seems to already exist in some way. Even in Adobe-land, so stop acting like this request was the cold fusion of software development.

    Participant
    May 30, 2023

    Hey Adobe, why are you not responding in any way to these numerous requests on this topic? This autosave feature, as handy as it is (because Adobe applications tend to crash often 😉 ) is so annoying when working on big projects where autosave takes 2 minutes each time... 

    Participating Frequently
    April 11, 2023

    It's 2023 !  Come on Adobe.
    If you can't figure out live save, at least don't disrupt the workflow somehow.

    Fresh Squeezed Creative
    Known Participant
    February 10, 2023

    "Adobe achieved revenue of $17.61 billion in fiscal year 2022,"

     

    Let that sink in while we get another "Wow is us and our small Dev team" excuse.

     

     

     

    Participating Frequently
    December 21, 2022

    today it did it while I was holding down shift and selecting a bunch of layers 😄

    jackthegiantkiller
    Inspiring
    November 28, 2022

    Hey Victoria, any news on this request spanning 5 years? In reality we have been begging for this for 20+ years but who's counting?

    Participating Frequently
    November 9, 2022

    Yesterday I was in the middle of dragging points in Illustrator and AE just pops to the foreground with an autosave box 😄 Absolutely ridiculous behaviour and spectacular that we still have to be on here moaning about it since 2018 😄

    jackthegiantkiller
    Inspiring
    October 5, 2022

    Would be so great to get an update on this one from Adobe.

    Inspiring
    September 28, 2022
    Four years. Four.