Implementing autosave

Thank you! This seems to be a solution.

And this. I often do what-if and 'experimental' things on developing docs, and a hard save could leave me with a disaster on my hands. If ID had autosave, I'd likely leave it disabled. 

I am currently doing work in a client Word 365 system, and autosave is sticky, persistent and auto-enabling. It's bitten me several times. 

I will maintain that a little document... hygiene is a better solution than relying on dumb auto functions... but I am likely in a minority. 

Probably because saving any but fairly short docs can take an appreciable amount of time. Few of us want to be interrupted for 10-30 seconds or more without warning. 

By @James Gifford—NitroPress

Photoshop, which works with much larger files than InDesign and also does only full saves, worked around that by implementing background saving. Now I am usually unconcerned about how long it takes to save a large Photoshop or TIFF document, because the progress bar is down in the status bar not blocking user actions, so as it finishes the last save, I can continue editing the document without waiting. A long save is only a problem if I need to close the document and move on, then of course it’s necessary to wait for that.

When InDesign can do something like background save is answered by your other good point…who knows when Adobe will decide it’s a good time to redo the save code. And I agree that the one thing that has helped me avoid disaster over the years is developing the habit of pressing the Save shortcut any time I’m not in the middle of something.