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Photoshop CS5 autosave feature?

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May 20, 2010
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Hi. Is there a way to set up Photoshop CS5 to periodically save my work? Thanks.

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Anonymous

This is autosave program 'Photoshop autosave'

It's all Free and Portable. Autosave and Backup files. Support Photoshop,Painter,Manga Studio

It's free but you can buy me a beer ;->

supported(tested) Photoshop CS3/4/5 and Painter 9/11

https://sites.google.com/site/pautosave/home

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ac361Author

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Thanks, Elfpainter79. Just downloaded and running it after the latest Photoshop CS5 freeze. Lost an afternoon's worth of work. I got so caught up in my work forgot to save. What's puzzling is that there's no Save button anywhere on screen within Photoshop -- you have to go to File > Save. Why is there no save button? At least give us the option to add that.

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Anonymous

Keyboard: Ctrl S ...Often.

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Anonymous

How about making an action or a popup that comes on at a user-specified time interval which prompts to save or not? Simple and easy, and a good idea.

I have some friends who work in 3D animation who made an independant app that does that for the OS, pops up a dialogue that just says "SAVE!!!!" every 5 minutes.

Would be nice to have something like that that autolaunches w/ PS.

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Anonymous

Found one!

http://ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1064

Someone with the same brilliant idea did an applescript that does just that for PS!!

Woohoo!

Noel Carboni

Legend

RadhaMadhava108 wrote:

applescript

And this helps how? Keep in mind Windows users are reading this.

Honestly, I can't think of much more frustrating than to have Photoshop just stop and spend time saving my document while I'm trying to work interactively. If an autosave could be made completely non-intrusive that would be one thing, but given that some larger/multi-layer documents can take quite a long time to save, I'd have to say a script solution would be impractical to live with.

-Noel

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LBroome

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No autosave? That's crazy. I'm crushed. I can get past not having flying cars and robot house keepers, but not having autosave is cruel, barbaric, inept. I do almost all of my writing in OneNote and Final Draft, apps that make it almost impossible to lose work. Software that protects creative labor against the dark evil of data loss is something to be admired.

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electriciris

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Hi all,

The advantage of third party plugins such as psdAutoSave is that they (usually) work with more than just the latest version of Photoshop. PsdAutoSaver works with Photoshop 7 on up, all the way to CS5.

PsdAutoSaver is Windows-only for now, but a Mac version is in the works, and will be released hopefully end of September. It would be sooner, but I'm taking a badly needed vacation

Also, just to help anyone still on the fence, the price of PsdAutoSaver (and SliceMaster) have been dropped to $10 each. http://www.electriciris.com

Noel Carboni

Legend

I don't mean to be a pain, but is it okay to peddle commercial software here?

-Noel

Zeno Bokor

Inspiring

Theoretically no as it's against the Adobe.com terms of use which you agreed to when you made your account. That said, i don't have a problem with it as long as it's on-topic and it's not done too often.

jerry31norman

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just to say a quick hello and thanx on your great effort. you guys helped me a lot. jerry

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electriciris

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Hi,

Just a quick note to say, PSDAutoSaver for CS5 & CS4 (32 and 64 bit) has just been released: http://www.electriciris.com/

Cheers.

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ColdDasani-EVXJOm

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Looks good but apperently not for CS5? http://autosave.cz/en/about-autosave.html

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Pussik

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OK I have it in CS3 x86.

Unfortunately I work in CS5 x64.

But.. I don't have any crashes of PS anyway.

Btw, when I'm choosing destinaton folder for history files, can I explore my windows by that kind of window?

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7876/obrazekq.jpg instead this tree:

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8651/okienko3.jpg

Ps: I don't have this new option, which I can see on a video. I have 1.1 version of plugin, from here: http://www.electriciris.com/psdAutoSaverSetup1.1.exe

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electriciris

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Hi Pussik,

Please use the forums on electriciris.com for questions relating to psdautosaver. I don't want to abuse the Adobe forums

I've posted the answers to your questions there. Thank you!

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electriciris

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I have developed a PsdAutoSave plugin which is available at http://www.electriciris.com/psdautosaver.html

You can set the frequency of how often it should save, the number of backups, etc. Here is peek at the settings of the plugin:

http://www.electriciris.com/settings.jpg

I'm pretty sure it will do the trick

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Pussik

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I can limit work of your plugin depends of editing file size?

I mean.. I don't wanna autosave when I'm editing 500MB file, but I wish, when I'm editing 10MB file.

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electriciris

Known Participant

No , but that is a REALLY GOOD suggestion! I will add that feature as soon as possible and let you know!

Update: Feature added. Try the new download

Noel Carboni

Legend

No, not built-in anyway. The very fact that you're asking for such a feature is a sad testment to a new and unfortunately lower level of reliability that Photoshop has been exhibiting since CS4.

Perhaps with the complexity of the recent performance enhancements comes more problems; I've certainly noticed a difference. I used to be able to edit for hours upon hours, on image after image, with CS3 and earlier versions. Editing astroimagery is especially demanding, with sessions on one image running to hours.

Starting with CS4 I pretty much had to start Photoshop afresh for each new image I worked on. I'm holding final judgement on CS5 until I use it a bit longer, but I've already seen enough failures (with OpenGL off as well) resulting in lost work to be redone to start to think that it's not as robust as it was a few versions ago. Some may wonder whether my computer is at fault, but this workstation runs for weeks (essentially as long as it takes between Microsoft Updates that require reboots) without faults (and I use it heavily). I'm a career software engineer and Windows sysadmin and I seriously doubt there's a Windows system that's set up or maintained better than this one.

-Noel

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David Dobish

Adobe Employee

I will say that this is something we are looking into for future releases of the software. The problem with autosave is as the image gets bigger and bigger an autosave could severly hurt PS performance because we have to write the file to disk during a save. So you would be working in PS and then with out warning PS would write 500MB to disk and PS's overall performance would suffer during the save. I am not saying it is not a good request it is just a little more tricky than just auto save.

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torsnow1

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David Dobish wrote:
I will say that this is something we are looking into for future releases of the software. The problem with autosave is as the image gets bigger and bigger an autosave could severly hurt PS performance because we have to write the file to disk during a save. So you would be working in PS and then with out warning PS would write 500MB to disk and PS's overall performance would suffer during the save. I am not saying it is not a good request it is just a little more tricky than just auto save.

Yes, but there are many ways to accomplish what we're asking for here. Simply saving the entire file every X minutes (user-specified) and notifying the user that Photoshop is saving their file in the background would really eliminate most of the headaches associated with the temporary slowdown. The same way you're asking us to save the file every so often, we're simply asking Photoshop to do it for us. It's NOT complicated. Even 15 minutes of work between crashes can be annoying (and costly) if it's happening 2-3 times a week.

electriciris wrote:
I have developed a PsdAutoSave plugin which is available at http://www.electriciris.com/psdautosaver.html
You can set the frequency of how often it should save, the number of backups, etc. Here is peek at the settings of the plugin:
http://www.electriciris.com/settings.jpg
I'm pretty sure it will do the trick

THANK YOU. David, this is what I'm talking about. Would it have killed someone on your development team to do something like this? Again, we're showed that the real value of the exorbitant price of Photoshop is the community support, not Adobe itself.

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