P: Auto-Save/Recovery function

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i'm working in a design firm, and adobe photoshop is one of the primary graphic application we are using. i believe that i wont be the first one to highlight this problem to Adobe but i want to emphasize and maybe it's about time now for Adobe to work on this autosave feature and back up feature. we have been experiencing a tremendous amount of complaint from our design staff that when the photoshop file crashes they have to redo all over again. adn without those feature Adobe photoshop is becoming inefficient. we all hope Adobe can find a way to resolve this long overdue problem. thanks.,

Do you have Photoshop CS6?

Again I lost my work when a Thunderstorm caused a momentary power blackout, It would be great if PS had a hold function so in this case the site that was up would reload. Also, it would be nice to be able to close with work on the screen and have is auto save so it would be there when next opened. Is this possible? Probable? Realistic? Thanks, Would appreciate a return comment: stevebee@coastalnow.net

For auto-save of preferences, please enter a feature request. There may already be a similar request here.

Yeeah, had this problem of corrupted preferences quite a few times. As well as preferences not being saved on a crash.
I do duplicate the file with preferences manually when I do any sufficient changes to it, though.

Awww, but that's annoying.
I posted this 2 months ago and another Adobe employee said it was possible with background save:
"2. Protect History/ New Presets in the event of a crash. (How much history in the event of a crash could be settable as well). "

Preferences crash too. I had a recent wipe out where Photoshop couldn't find the preferences file upon start up and I thought everything was fine when I closed it, but the file got corrupted. That meant I had to redo the brushes that I'd originally put there, and restore all of the presets, which is a pain in the butt, since there is no external file to save those preferences (Say like workspaces, or the shortcut ones) I also find restoring them even if I backed them up properly to be annoying. You got to go through all the folders in the folder structure and remember 5 files+ to find and then you have to recreate the ones you lost and cry over the rest. I spent a good hour redoing my work and I wasn't happy because I thought that I had it saved.

I think there would be four solutions to this (Check box option for whichever):
1. Save the preset preferences to a separate file upon defining the preset. Sure may take up some time, but better than crashing and seeing that hard work go down the drain.
So it would save to something like the workspaces thing. (Which, BTW, did not get corrupted with the grand preferences crash.)
2. Include it into the auto-save feature so that preferences are preserved with the save. (Less desirable because preferences can and will crash/corrupt.)
3. Have the program/app save the brushes to an all/whatever the user chooses preset pack with the auto-save. (There is no all brushes pack anyway. I had to create one.)
4. The least desirable would be to include it with the workspaces with an option to do so. (Less visible UI and wouldn't be able to be saved often.)

Mostly auto-save is to protect from crashes... so I want good crash protection options.

Would Adobe consider doing it?

No, it only applies to documents in CS6. Photoshop still saves all preferences on exit. But you can always save presets yourself.

Does that include automatic presets saving too? If so... drool! If not... *pout*

That's one of my gripes... you need to shut down Photoshop to save your presets in the preset menus... and that's a pain in the butt if you are making a ton of brushes/patterns and they crash *with* your unsaved file. Even if the file is saved, it's still hard to have to recreate them again.

That's not even remotely the point. The users want certain functionality, across multiple platforms. They don't want a restrictive and incomplete solution that only works on one platform (and then only if Adobe rewrites their document model into something that doesn't make sense for an image editor).

Apple's API is intended for simpler applications, not something large or complex like Photoshop.