After Effects crashes each time autosave initiates, even though I've disabled autosave

AE crashes each and every time my project autosaves. As if that weren't frustrating enough, I've turned off autosave numerous times. I've reset my preferences numerous times. I even uninstalled and reinstalled AE to no avail. I also cleared my cache and even gave that more space to work within, but so far nothing changes.

I can open up AE, check my preferences to see that autosave is turned off, and 10 minutes later autosave launches and AE crashes completely. This is happening on all projects. Been like this for about a week and I have yet to come across anyone else dealing with this issue. Does anyone know what the source of the problem could be?

Here's what I'm working with:

 2019 Macbook pro 16-inch running Catalina 10.15.7

2.6 GHz 6-core Intel core i7

32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB & AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

I updated my laptop's OS yesterday (problem was happening before, and persists after) and AE is up to date.