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Cygnus_200
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June 10, 2026
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Turn off Autosave

  • June 10, 2026
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The image here is not from my pc, I found it online to help illustrate my problem.

I do not know Photoshop well at all, I have only recently begun to use it, so I am a beginner.

 

My problem is that eventhough I have turned off auto-save shown above, it still automatically saves the file I am working on. Perhaps every 15 minutes or so. It slows down my pc tremendously. I want to turn off auto-save. I thought I had, but it still on. I searched online for how to turn off the auto-save and did that and have not changed any other settings. I checked earlier today and the auto-save box is not checked. What is wrong?

 

Only yesterday I finally found out how to upload a file to the Cloud and did it with this very large file that I am working on. It is currently 10GB. 

 

Before I did that I saved it and opened it on my pc, which is older, and may not be powerful enough for PS, but it has the minimum specifications needed for it. When I worked on the file which I have on the pc, it was slow, but not at all as sloooooooow as it is now with the Cloud file. Even a very simple command takes almost a minute or longer. To my understanding working on a Cloud file would flow much smoother. Working on the Cloud file also slows my pc down and even more while it is auto-saving.

 

Also yesterday, after I had opened the Cloud file for the first time, it went really smoothly and the difference was quite noticable, as if I was working on another computer, but now, today, it is really testing my patience and it soon goes out the window.

 

 

Magnus. 

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2026

    In addition to what Jane says, it should also be pointed out that a 10 GB file is an extremely big file that requires high-end current hardware. That’s not something you can handle on any old computer. Specifically, you need a large amount of free disk space to accommodate the scratch file. You should have at least 500 GB for this, perhaps more.

     

    The way you describe it, it sounds like you’re running out of disk space. I very much doubt this has anything to do with auto-recovery. 

     

    You can reduce the impact of the scratch file by reducing history states in Preferences, all the way down to 1 or 2. The current Photoshop default is 50, which eats disk space. Each history state potentially adds the full uncompressed file size.

      jane-e
      Community Expert
      jane-eCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 10, 2026

      ​@Cygnus_200 

       

      Two things:

      • The option to Automatically Save Recovery Information only kicks in when you have a document to recover — i.e., after a crash.

       

      • When you save a psdc file to the Cloud, it saves automatically. You can’t turn it off, but you can retrieve earlier versions.

       

      From Help:

      You can quickly check your version history in Photoshop desktop by following the simple steps below:

      1. Open a cloud document and choose either File > Version History or Window > Version History to open the Version History panel.
      2. In the Version History panel that opens, you can easily browse and view thumbnails of saved versions of your cloud document.

      https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html

       

      Jane

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