[Feature Request] Auto Save instead of that Auto recovery data

[Toasted Bread]

I don't know how many times Auto save had saved me in other programs, just being able to go back to some point at any day is really useful.

Unlike the auto save auto recovery data, there's nothing to go back to if I closed the program regularly. 

I know we do save different versions manually, but we all make mistakes. Like hitting Ctrl+Shift+E and thought I hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E without noticing until the next day :’) 

So please… give us an option to auto save, so I can trust adobe got my back every 5 min… thank you…..

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Hi @Toasted Bread if you are saving to the cloud there is an autosave feature already included. Are you asking for the same on your local instance?

[D Fosse]

Not realistic. The amount of virtual memory needed (disk space) would be more than any average computer can be expected to have. It would just lead to a massive storm of complaints from people without enough disk space to store all these versions.

Advanced raster image editing handles huge amounts of data just to keep operation going - orders of magnitude more than nominal file sizes. Few people realize this. Most other applications can work comfortably within the installed RAM - this is nowhere near enough for Photoshop, which has its own memory management writing working data to disk. It can require 500 GB or more for one session, just to keep history states for all open documents.

We already have enough problems explaining to people that "scratch disk full" messages refer to actual physical disk space.

You just need to learn some working discipline. Keep backups current. Save incrementally at important points. That's what we all do.

[Toasted Bread]

wait... for real 😄 ? you mean it can saves multiple copies automaticly like every 5 mins? 

[Toasted Bread]

I know nothing about how this program works, so I'm most likely wrong, but which from my understanding wouln't it just be lines of code to automaticly save a copy every 5 mins under a folder, and auto delete the oldest one when it reached an amount that user set? 

Like when I use Maya, I set it to auto save every 1 min and the number of autosaves to 20, so it have 20 copies of last 20 mins, as the screenshot. So as premiere and aftereffect isn't it?  

And if one PS file is about 500MB in my current case, 20 copies are 1.5GB. plus older versions that I manually saved forexample the screenshot below, *_7 the newest, *_6 is 3G times 20copy = 60G, etc. is somehow okay for me and I said to have it sa an "option", maybe have it off on defult, moreover I can delete the *_6 and before manually if I know I don't need it anymore, better than not having it at all you know.

I just wanit to hit save as and rename every 5 min for me, cuz im dumb forget all the time and get lazy and get carried away easily  :'(

lots stuffs you said I don't quite understand, but since I can save versions, why can't it do it for me? 😛

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

There are scripts to save every N minutes and or incrementally save versions, but none of that is built-in.