Continue to work on your projects with new Background Save and Export

[Om Nath Jha]

Continue working on your projects while Illustrator works on saving/exporting your document in the background. You are informed when the processes are complete. You can always check the progress of the save or file operation midway using the Progress button. 

Note: Background save and export is supported for AI, PNG, and JPEG files only. 

For more info, check these help articles: 

Saving an artwork

Exporting an artwork

Feedback and questions:  

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[Charu Rajput]

Is it possible to do with script as well?

[HS15]

Hi, since the latest download the app is regularly crashing, it isn't saving artwork and also become very slow. I am also getting so airobin files in the trash box, should these be deleted?

Thx

[Monika Gause]

This thread is about a previous version. Please create a new thread.

Tell us your version and system and when the app is crashing.

Also: where do you save files? What kind of files?

[I Can´t apply a pattern]

The Illustrator performance inn the last year is the worst i remember , it consumes a huge amount of resources and crashes all the time. 

[EMMA5E8A]

When the AI robin is running it means Illustrator+AIRobin is using almost twice as much memory and filling my system data, meaning I can't run more than two adobe applications at once, can I redirect where the AIRobin is using the memory onto external harddrive (as you can with scratchdisks), how do I resove this please?