Premiere Pro - Auto Save is Killing me

This also drives me insane.  NO need for it.  This should absolutely happen in the BG, NOT freeze the workflow.  My mac is plenty fast, and has no trouble autosaving in AVID. 

And for the record - turning OFF autosave is not the solution some here think it is.  You autosave for a reason, and the function itself should happen in the BG - period.

This is a software design problem, where a later developer can't use previous competitors' program designs that work mre efficiently due to copyright infringement,  and so must design something clunkier to get the job done.

This alone is driving me back to AVID, though there are a couple of other bugs (such as slow large file management) that have cost me time and data that neither AVID nor FCP ever did.

This should not be marked as "SOLVED".

I was just searching the web for an answer to this problem, and it's a little disheartening to learn that this has been an issue for so long. I know I might be writing into the void since I'm adding to a thread that is almost 10 yrs old, but I feel the desire add my complaint, and underscore that this problematic functionality flaw has never been fixed.

I don't mind it quite as much when Autosave interrupts me while I'm working in Premiere (tho I relate to people who object to that and don't fault anyone for getting disturbed by it; it is an enemy of being "in the zone"). I am usually able to remind myself (and my clients) how many times Autosave has saved my hide, and then all is forgiven, at least for the moment. However, I truly hate it when Premiere's Autosave progress bar pops to the foreground when I'm using other programs. My kneejerk reaction is to shove it aside, but I've trained myself to short-circuit that urge because I know from bitter experience that clicking on the progress bar window throws you into Premiere, and that is an even bigger distraction, and once in awhile actually disrupts what I was doing in another program.

One of the worst cases for me is when I'm in Photoshop, because the autosave progress bar always pops up in the exact middle of the screen, usually blocking a crucial part of whatever I'm working on, so I just have to wait it out. At best it's distracting and can derail my train of thought, at worst it can actually mess up what I was doing and I have to start some process or other over again. Especially if I forget to control the aforementioned urge to move the darn thing, and then I'm jettisoned out of Photoshop and into Premiere.

The advice to turn Autosave OFF is no solution at all.  1) I'm not going to turn it off and then back on every time I leave Premiere temporarily to do something in another program, and 2) as someone else pointed out, it's too easy to forget to turn it back on. 

Likewise the other suggestion to customize the time between Autosaves to make them happen much less often is almost as problematic. Frequent Autosaves are the preference of most Premiere users, since the whole point of Autosave is to have a recent backup if your project crashes or a drive fails or any other incident that causes you to lose work you've done that was never saved. Anyone who's ever had to try and remember the last chunk of work and redo it can attest that this can really set you back. And before anyone says it, recovery projects don't always work – it's a great feature but it's not foolproof.

At the very least, could the Autosave progress bar window appear in a corner of the computer screen instead of the middle, where most things tend to be happening?  Or, alternatively, can the Autosave progress bar window be changed so you can move it out of the way without sending you to Premiere?

I also find that when I leave working in the program to do something else, the autosave functionality stops. This is even though Premiere is open. Then when I return to the program and interact with it, it begins an autosave. Why does it wait to do that? Please fix.

6 years later... still the same exact problem...  I have a huge project (which is about to grow even larger) and autosave dialogue will sometimes lock up my for for 20-30sec uggghhh...  That's despite having a solid, expensive, high end workstation...  Turning it off completely is like russian roulette (and i lost a few times before when i had to redo few hours of work just cause i forgot to turn it back on) - but seriously - this issue is infuriating!

I'd probably never scroll all the way down here on a forum to find an answer but I was having this issue today and found out what may have been causing the hang up. Thought it might be helpful to share.

Premiere 2017 was crashing out on me when it would go to autosave as I was working - which just always seemed like a really risky move for a program to do to begin with imho. Turns out, I was using "Morph Cut". If you've used this effect, try deleting it and see if it performs better.

I just want to say to every poster in this thread, there is a better way.  But we will never get this better way unless everyone tells Adobe they want it.

FR: Instant AutoSave

Over 3 years later, numerous versions later, many complaints, features requests and bug reports later, and...

STILL NOT FIXED (vCC2015.0)

This is STILL bothering me, along with numerous other irritations, and some of the fanbois wonder how i can have the audacity to complain.

3 years?!?!?!

But then, the Acrobat Reader updater is stuck in your face while downloading, and has annoyed *everyone* for what SIX years now?!?!?!

sometimes i think there are very few people actually working for adobe.

I'm using Premiere Pro CC 2014.2 (8.2.0 [65] Build) on a Mac with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

Preface: I love Premiere, I love Adobe, this is not a complaint, I am not angry or upset, your products are far more valuable to me than any amount of money, I am more than pleased with your software, I am more than pleased with your services, I am more than pleased with your prices.  Unfortunately, I can relate to the issues attached to the auto-save function.  So I'm sharing my experiences and my suggestions in order to possibly help make this amazing software even better for all of us.

I've been interrupted by auto-save countless times, sometimes it's a minor inconvenience that requires me to repeat whatever action was interrupted.  Other times, depending on the action that it interrupts, it causes Premiere to crash...  Today I've decided to go ahead and disable auto-save until I see improvements made to the way that it works, because in its current state, for me anyway, it DOESN'T work... It's caused me far more frustration and time lost than it has saved me from anything.

My most recent encounter with an auto-save interruption DID cause a crash.  This time, the auto-save kicked in while I was adjusting the width of the tools panel in the title editor window, meaning, I had my left-click held down and was currently dragging to my desired tools panel width to more effectively edit the title in which I currently had open in the title editor window.

Anyway, I've submitted a bug report and feature suggestion but I figure it can't hurt to share the suggestions here as well... Not to mention, the 2000 character limit for those forms...

MY IDEAL SOLUTION: If the auto-save timer "reaches zero" while premiere is actively completing a task, OR while the user is actively sending commands to premiere in any way, force the auto-save to wait until the next instance of complete NON-activity from both the user and premiere itself, then initiate the auto-save and reset the timer upon completion.  This would cut out the possibility of such collisions, and any crashes that may result.  I know I'm not the only person who has been interrupted by auto-save, I also know that the auto-save interruption has caused crashes for me in the past (although I don't recall exactly what actions I was doing when the interruptions and crashes occurred in the past), most times it simply interrupts my current action, requiring me to repeat the action if desired, which is fine I suppose.  I just see this solution as a way to eliminate the concern altogether.

BONUS SUGGESTION: It would also be awesome if while auto-save is active, user commands cannot be made.  This would prevent users from accidentally interrupting and/or canceling the auto-save.

ALTERNATE SOLUTION:  Perhaps have an optional timer somewhere on the interface of premiere that shows a live countdown to the next auto-save so that users can keep an eye out for the interruption.  Maybe even have clickable options within the timer to do things like, "Skip upcoming save, reset the timer", and "Save now, reset the timer".  That way if someone is about to get pretty deep into an edit, and doesn't want to be interrupted, let's say they glance at the timer and see that the next auto-save is less than 3 minutes away, they can then choose to save now, and not worry about the auto-save interruption for another X minutes (X being whatever their auto-save interval is set to).  Same is true for the skip and reset, although someone may want to use this instead if they know that they haven't changed much since the last auto-save (or manual save) and are trying to save space when possible.

Obviously my vote is for my ideal solution + bonus suggestion.  I realize that may be asking for a lot, which is why I also suggested the alternate solution.  I would be more than happy having the added control over auto-save that it would provide.

I manually save quite often, but I'd like to keep auto-save enabled as a safety net.  I honestly don't mind at all that it is not a background operation, but the interruptions and crashes have gotten to the point where I have a mini-panic attack every time it pops up while I'm working on something...  Thinking to myself, "PLEASE don't crash..."

Absolutely! This is a constant frustration for me at work. Autosaves kicking in mid-drag can be excruciatingly annoying.

I spoke to someone at Adobe support and he replied saying that they had actually written it into CC NOT to auto-save whilst something is in transit, ie. being dragged. However, I've seen no difference in the frequency of what I would honestly refer to as a bug!

Premiere, I love you, but small things like this shouldn't still be happening!