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Om Nath Jha
Legend
November 8, 2019
Question

Continue to work on your projects with new Background Save and Export

  • November 8, 2019
  • 5 replies
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Continue working on your projects while Illustrator works on saving/exporting your document in the background. You are informed when the processes are complete. You can always check the progress of the save or file operation midway using the Progress button. 

NoteBackground save and export is supported for AI, PNG, and JPEG files only. 

 

 

For more info, check these help articles: 

Saving an artwork

Exporting an artwork

 

Feedback and questions:  

Reply to this post to share your feedback on this feature, and any questions you have around using it. Our team of experts here will do their best to assist you.

5 replies

schroef
Inspiring
January 24, 2025

When both options are turned OFF in the settings, why is AIRobin still running and eating away wasted RAM??

What also weird, when i turn off background saving, i dont see any saving dialog. Which is also an issue

Even worse, when i force quite it, it magically starts itself again. Talk about invasive apps

EdKrapow
Participating Frequently
March 7, 2025

I renamed airobin.exe > airobin.exe.old (was in: Program Files/Adobe Illustrator/Support Files/Content/Windows)

Start AI, it show a warning error > OK > and it starts normally

schroef
Inspiring
March 7, 2025

So it runs properly without it?

 

I find it strange, when background save is off, they still run it

Participant
October 5, 2023

When the AI robin is running it means Illustrator+AIRobin is using almost twice as much memory and filling my system data, meaning I can't run more than two adobe applications at once, can I redirect where the AIRobin is using the memory onto external harddrive (as you can with scratchdisks), how do I resove this please?

I Can´t apply a pattern
Participant
April 15, 2021

The Illustrator performance inn the last year is the worst i remember , it consumes a huge amount of resources and crashes all the time. 

 

 

Participant
June 19, 2020

Hi, since the latest download the app is regularly crashing, it isn't saving artwork and also become very slow. I am also getting so airobin files in the trash box, should these be deleted?

Thx

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2020

This thread is about a previous version. Please create a new thread.

Tell us your version and system and when the app is crashing.

Also: where do you save files? What kind of files?

Charu Rajput
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2019

Is it possible to do with script as well?

 

Best regards