• Adobe After Effects

  AE Saves copy every time I save

  Posted by Claudia Gabriela on July 28, 2014 at 5:15 pm

  Hey guys,
  Every time I save my After Effects project, it saves a copy of the project. I hit Comand + S to save it, not save as, and it does this every time.

  Can anyone tell me how to make this STOP? I just want to be able to save this project without making a new copy each time

  Richard Garabedain replied 12 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Claudia Gabriela

  July 28, 2014 at 5:39 pm

  Thanks,
  But the company I work for asks to save this way. Different workflows, I suppose.

  Thanks again though
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  Walter Soyka

  July 28, 2014 at 8:30 pm

  After Effects should only force you to Save As when you are opening a project file saved by an earlier version of Ae. It does this to prevent you from accidentally making that AEP unreadable by prior versions.

  However, once you do that initial Save As, subsequent saves should not be Save As.

  If you’re seeing this behavior every time you save, perhaps you should rest Ae’s preferences? Hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) while Ae is starting.

  Walter Soyka
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  Richard Garabedain

  July 28, 2014 at 8:35 pm

  Sounds like its Incremental saving every time. Though its only supposed to when you hit increment and save.

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