adobe illustrator automatic renaming my save files

[Aaron5E71]

I have a probelm with my Adobe Illustrator, after I save my worl as a ai file. 

I went to find my saved file in my computer folder it will help me rename to something else. 

Please help me address this issue 

[lambiloon · Accepted solution]

Hi this is may be some virus in your computer try to do clean install of everything ..... regards

[Aaron5E71]

hi! thank so much for replying me. 

is there any ways to detect the virus and maybe clean it?

[Doug A Roberts]

Whoa there. That is some conclusion to jump to on limited evidence!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

This is not necessarily a virus.

This might be caused by:

- malconfigured user pivileges

- saving tosynchronized folders

- saving to networks

- the option "Save in background" turned on in Illustrator

- harddisk issues

[Aaron5E71]

Thankyou so much for the reply! how can I address this issue?

[Monika Gause]

First I would turn off "Save in background" in the Illustrator preferences. Then try if it helped.

Save only in unsynchronized local folders. Does it help?

Check the user privileges. Does it help?

[Ashutosh_Mishra · Accepted solution]

Hi Aaron,

Sorry to hear about this. This is not the usual behavior of the app. I agree with @lambiloon & @Monika Gause  both here. I see multiple files with similar pattern here. You're saving files on the local drive.

I'd recommend you to do these two things mentioned below:

1. Reset preferences: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html#setting_illustrator_preferences

**Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.

2. Try creating a new user account on your machine: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-a-local-user-or-administrator-account-in-windows-...

Let us know if it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh