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JOHN MONDO
Inspiring
November 27, 2023
Question

Auto-save not working consistently

  • November 27, 2023
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I was looking for an auto save today and I've realised that since the 25th August, PP has not been saving auto-saves consistently. Yikes! And when I say consistently I mean not a lot - very intermittent. here's a screen shot of my autosaves (dates only) over that period. I edit nearly every day in PP. PS I have checked my settings and the location hasn't changed and there is plenty of space on the drive. 

I'll reset prefs and see if that fixes it but I wonder why Premiere doesn't report an issue like this to the user? I also wonder if it's a database issue and if i delete some old autosaves if that will fix it. My hardware - M1 macbook Pro with 32GB RAM.

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    November 27, 2023

    Hey, we all understand! That said, many of us have been royally burned by forgetting to do that manual save and a routine save-as iterative save, move on to that new project process. Or in my case, the first time, not realizing that I should have been doing as much as I did.

     

    And I came into video post after 20 years of using computers in our business, and thoroughly steeped in saves save your backside. I didn't realize how fast, and how bad, you got burned in an NLE. Silly me!

     

    About the third time ... well, Ann Bens, Jim Simon, and Craig (forgot his forum name!) were rather merciless on me for being ... well, less than sane, perhaps? But yes, I learned ... I've not been burned like that in years now. Thankfully.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    J
    JOHN MONDOAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 27, 2023

    Hey - I always value all your opinions but in this I think it is not a complicated matter for Adobe to address. ie - save the file then check it has been saved and advise the user if it hasn't. And on the flip side I've been using After Effects for a couple of decades and NEVER had that fail to save an auto-save. I've had it crash in between auto-saves, when I've forgotten to save my preferences to make it back up every 5 minutes and lost 30 minutes but that's the extent of it. So we shouldn't be satisifed with a critical feature that doesn't work properly. It also doesn't address as you put it the iterative save - if we make a mistake and want to go back in time 30 minutes. You can't use Save As in productions because you create a copy and then you continually get warnings about duplicate projects - maybe you do something different Neil? as I know you work in productions as well?

     

    I'm not ignoring the advice - I will start doing it but don't think as loyal users we should "settle" for something sub par when Adobe have clearly showed they canmake it work in other software.

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      November 27, 2023

      Don't disagree with any of that.

       

      However, I learned years ago to request better of the app, but no matter how well the app seems to behave, as a simple matter of saving my sanity  ... never, ever rely on the app. No matter what app, or made by whoever.

       

      Just ... practical.

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
      Peru Bob
      Community Expert
      Peru BobCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 27, 2023

      Auto save has very often been unpredictable in past versions.  Sometimes it won't start auto saving until a manual save is done.

      Don't rely on auto save. Save and save a copy often.  Only rely on auto save as a last resort.

      Also, make sure your auto saves and backups are on a different drive than your media and projects.

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        JOHN MONDOAuthor
        Inspiring
        November 27, 2023

        I don't disagree Bob but unfortunately auto-save is something I've come to rely on and in the past it has been very reliable (at least fo me). And in 2023 it is something that should work, consistently, well and without ever failing. And there should be a software check built into the program to check it's working. That's not to say your advice is bad, it's just when working under deadlines, continually remembering to hit SHIFT-S (why was it changed from Command-S anyway?)  is not something I can do. Which is why I rely on auto-save. I'm human, not a computer. I'll forget. And the one time I do will be the one time I need it... (Murphy and all)

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