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Inspiring
September 28, 2022
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BACKGROUND AUTO-SAVE, Auto-save should not interrupt your workflow

  • September 28, 2022
  • 58 replies
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The title says it all. Auto-save should function in the background and NOT pop up with an annoying progress bar every time it runs. Gets REALLY bad on large project files when auto-saves take up to a min every single time.

Total workflow killer. Should be just like taking snapshots of your project in the background while continue working.

The dialog even pops up and steals focus from another app you're in.

    58 replies

    Known Participant
    March 3, 2026

    The autosave has also a weird timing. Sometimes doesnt kick in at all and sometimes it does it like 3 times in a row with a couple of mins in between, sometimes its like a single minute and it kicks in and then kicks in again. Its EXTREMELY annoying it freezes the program until is completely saved and sometimes it takes a while doing so on big projects. Itd be a whole different experience if only a background auto-save would be possible.. If only we could have that level of programming. If only the human would evolved enought to have background auto-save.. But I guess that’s not possible with the current tech. I guess we only have to wait 10 or 20 years until we are capable or to wait for AI to do it itself since AI seems too important for ADOBE. We are advanced enough to have AI in Premiere but we may have to keep waiting to have background auto-save..

    Known Participant
    March 2, 2026

    PLEASE ADOBE take a look a this. ITs quite dumb the way autosave kicks in in the middle of an action EVERY TIME , it should do it in the background or at least kick in while you’re not actively in the middle of a task or an action. Id be way better if: when finished dragging a clip, autosave kicks in.. When pressing stop playback, autosave kicks in (instead of having pressed play and the autosave interrupts the playback causing big projects to crash or get stuck playing and saving at the same time which makes the save process longer cause the program has a collision of tasks. PLEASE ADOBE THIS IS BAD, it drags me, kills the flow state EVERY TIME . Not to mention if youre up against a tight deadline and premiere deciding right then when youre reorganizing your timeline and moving hundreds of clips that that’s the best moment to auto save.. 

    DEACTIVATING AUTO SAVE DOESNT SOLVE THE ISSUE IT JUST CREATES OTHER ISSUES.

    PLEASE ADOBE FOCUS PAY ATTENTION

    Wonderstory Ltd
    Participant
    July 14, 2025

    please do this

    Inspiring
    April 17, 2025

    Well, here I am, it’s 2025 ... new computer, fresh install of the tippy-esy toppy-est After Effects, annnnnnnd I’m still waiting for Auto Saves. How has Adobe not addressed this yet

    motionben
    Known Participant
    March 5, 2025

    Making a coffee and bumping this while I wait for Auto-Save to let me get back to work :). Thankfully the app will pull focu when its

    motionben
    Known Participant
    February 11, 2025

    Back again to bump this  while waiting for the Autosave dialogue to finish...

    motionben
    Known Participant
    November 21, 2024

    This interrupts me on the daily as well. +1 for a modernized background save.

    Participant
    November 5, 2024

    Agreed. Not sure why they even bothered adding 3D in. Seems like a waste of resources. 

    jackthegiantkiller
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2024

    A little experiment for the After Effects Team, just in case they are actually reading any of this and might deign to respond. Go to the After Effects Community forum, click on the little button that says "Ideas" and then sort the list by top votes. You'll see this requests close to the top with 516 votes with zero affirmation from the team while importing 3D objects had about 100 votes and is now inexplicably complete? Soooo, how about you actually address the direct top-voted needs of your users????

    jackthegiantkiller
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2024

    Still nothing in 2024, not even an acknowledgment from the team after this was top voted for years on the previous board, and now sits silently on here. Premiere managed to fix this, why can't you?