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.
This also causes scripts to crash, scripts that use palettes can try to run code if the user is performing an action right before this window pops up and it can kill the panel.
Adobe are hard at work fixing this but every time they type a line of code they are interrupted by a 5 minute autosave so it might take a few more decades
/t5/after-effects-ideas/background-auto-save-auto-save-should-not-interrupt-your-workflow/idc-p/13333262#M1490Nov 09, 2022
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Yesterday I was in the middle of dragging points in Illustrator and AE just pops to the foreground with an autosave box 😄 Absolutely ridiculous behaviour and spectacular that we still have to be on here moaning about it since 2018 😄
/t5/after-effects-ideas/background-auto-save-auto-save-should-not-interrupt-your-workflow/idc-p/13828040#M2127May 30, 2023
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Hey Adobe, why are you not responding in any way to these numerous requests on this topic? This autosave feature, as handy as it is (because Adobe applications tend to crash often 😉 ) is so annoying when working on big projects where autosave takes 2 minutes each time...
September 2023, and I still have to chose between being interrupted every couple of minutes, and struggling to get into the zone because AE could crash any minute for no apparent reason and I having to redo 20 minutes worth of animation work. lol
Seriously, guys: Ps, Ai and others are able to "recover" files after a crash for years now, which means the highly futuristic technology called "background auto save" seems to already exist in some way. Even in Adobe-land, so stop acting like this request was the cold fusion of software development.
/t5/after-effects-ideas/background-auto-save-auto-save-should-not-interrupt-your-workflow/idc-p/14150948#M2530Oct 11, 2023
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Seriously, Adobe. How about you bother acknowledging this years long request? Can you at least mark it considered? Why is this one request so impossible for your team?
/t5/after-effects-ideas/background-auto-save-auto-save-should-not-interrupt-your-workflow/idc-p/14468544#M3047Mar 05, 2024
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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?
/t5/after-effects-ideas/background-auto-save-auto-save-should-not-interrupt-your-workflow/idc-p/14518675#M3110Mar 27, 2024
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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????
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