Auto-Save and Auto-Recovery

[jdhughen]

I hope the is a differnence between auto-save (as listed in you document properties) and Auto-Recovery (as set in Prefs). I would like some "protection" but I don't want flash saving over my file unless I tell it to save. I got burn last night while "experimenting" and and did a "revert" only to find that flash had saved over my file, what a pain.  I went to find the "recovery" file only to not find one anywhere. My search on the net are conflicted with wheather or not these 2 features are the same. In my case both items where checked and both set to 10min (the default). soooo....

Please tell me that Auto-Recovery is different, is that it doesn't save over my file, ie it keeps a real back-up someplace, AND where i can find this "recovery" file. ?

This feature seems strange, why not do a std auto back-up to a user selected number of versions in a user selected location ?

Thanks

Joel

[bchintx · Accepted solution]

There is a difference, but neither option provides the functionality you describe in the last sentence of your post.  Good idea though!

"Auto-save" effectively saves any changes back to the original .fla or .xfl file from which the drawing was last saved or opened.  Think of it as effectively doing a "File / Save" at regular intervals (as defined in the document properties).

On the other hand, "auto-recover" provides protection against losing any currently unsaved changes in case Flash isn't closed gracefully (eg. sudden system power loss, system hang, or application crash).  With auto-recover enabled, Flash periodically saves any modified drawings to a temporary location.  In case of a crash, power loss, etc, the next time Flash is launched, you will be prompted whether you want to re-open those modified drawings from their last checkpoint.

[jdhughen]

Thanks. After poking around for a while I kinda figured this out. I was just glad to find out I could get some kind of "back-up" function from Auto Recovery, because "Auto Save" is a nightmare. I can't understand where anyone would want to use this feature at all. Anything that saves over what your working on before your ask for the file to be saved is looking for trouble. I found it out the hard way. I had "auto Save" on and after messing around trying a few different things, none of which worked or I liked, I thought I would simply close and re-open the original file only to find "auto save" had saved over my original file. I can't see any place where this feature would be anything but a pitb. If they want a auto save feature it should be saving versions of the original (up to a user specified number of instances) in the seperate folder. Never under any curcumstances should the original file be saved over unless the users presses SAVE. Auto recovery would be more useful if it didn't erase everytime you restarted the app. Flash needs to look at the back-up and versioning systems that AE and PPro use.

It's one of those things that bother you about the whole "suite" concept. Adobe owns all these apps and while some of them do play well together to an extent, for the most part it is still a collection of indiviuals. While there have been some changes to get the "look" of the apps to be close, the actual functioning of the UI in the differnt apps isn't where it needs to be. There needs to be a Suite "czar" that makes all the apps do std UI things the same using the same keys etc. for example AE, PPro, Flash, Photoshop, fireworks, all use different keys to zoom in/out or of your image/stage/comp/viewer/monitor window ie main workspace or to enable the mouse "wheel" for zooming.  PPro still refuses to use the spacebar to toggle the hand tool like every other "suite app". anyway. a std system for back-up and versioning is need across the suite.

thanks

Joel