• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How does Premiere auto-save function work?

  Posted by Michael Garske on April 1, 2012 at 7:18 pm

  Hi,

  I’ve recently started working in the Adobe suite after moving from Final Cut and I’m having an issue with auto-save. It’s possible that I just don’t understand it.

  I think I’ve figured that Premiere puts autosaves wherever the project file is located. Unlike in FCP there’s no way of designating a specific folder for auto saves is that correct?

  I went with default settings for the autosave of every 20 minutes with a total of 5 saves. Premiere does indeed say that its been saving every 20 minutes. However, after a force quit I went to recover the auto saves and the available 5 are all old project saves from 2 or more hours ago.

  My question is this: Does Premiere over write old auto saves with newer ones or does it stop auto saving once it reaches a total of 5?

  I assume that it’s supposed to overwrite the oldest autosave. If that’s the case why is my newest save from 2 hours ago? Does anyone know of a malfunction or setting that would cause this?

  Here is another post about the same question unanswered:
  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/205/870370

  I am running CS5.5 on a mac running Lion.

  John Greene replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Greene

  November 21, 2012 at 9:08 am

  have been having similar problems with PPro saving and have discovered the following

  1/ DONT TRUST IT !!! CTRL S ad nauseam :)save save save etc…….

  2/i think it works better when your project is on the same drive as the app (ie C:) but have no firm evidence yet 🙂

  3/ have yet to be convinced the damm thing is actually saving the project file and is not just creating new autosave files

  4/ DONT TRUST IT !!! CTRL S ad nauseam :)save save save etc…….

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