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tqrtuomo
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March 16, 2017
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"Data Recovery has been turned off" - should I worry?

  • March 16, 2017
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As I work on them, many of my documents grow to several hundred MB in size. Somewhere along the way, Illustrator decides this is more than Data Recovery can handle, and it pops up a message saying "This document contains artwork that may slow down saving of recovery information. Data Recovery has been turned off."

I have come to ignore this as normal (and I make sure to save often) because, really, what am I gonna do? Stop working? But just in case, I thought I'd ask - is this a sign of impending trouble, like a corrupted file with data loss? Or is it just Illustrator trying to be helpful? Is there something I could do to keep it from happening, like work with a lower Display Resolution? I typically use something like 36dpi just to speed things up, but I do have lots of Drop Shadows and blurs.

FWIW, I'm using Windows 7 Pro with 16 GB of RAM, Illustrator CC 14.something, no GPU. I realize life would be better with more RAM, but that's not an option at the moment with this machine.

Thanks,

Tom

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    Correct answer Om Nath Jha

    Hi tqrtuomo,

    I would say the second one, Illustrator trying to be helpful. However as these seems to be important files (all files are) I would recommend to save your work often, just to be extra sure  you don't loose any unsaved work.

    Regards,

    Om

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    rcraighead
    rcraighead
    Legend
    November 14, 2019

    This is an old post, but we've been troubleshooting an issue with "Slow Illustrator" with one of our Production Artist Macs. Turns out they had "Austomatically Save Data Every…" turned on. Turning it OFF fixed the VERY sluggish Illustrator problem. Our production work is short-lived and "Data Recovery" is not a big advantage. If it WERE important. I'd suggest working on a DropBox or other synced folder that retains a file history. That way in case of a corrupted file there is something to fall back on.

    Om Nath Jha
    Om Nath JhaCorrect answer
    Legend
    March 16, 2017

    Hi tqrtuomo,

    I would say the second one, Illustrator trying to be helpful. However as these seems to be important files (all files are) I would recommend to save your work often, just to be extra sure  you don't loose any unsaved work.

    Regards,

    Om

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