auto-save isn’t working?

[Gabriel Sanchez]

Autosaved files make a cycle. So if you set 5 Autosaved proyects in the preferences window, autosave #6 will overwrite the #1 and so on.

Regards

[Trevor Ward]

I understand this. But that doesnt explain why sometimes the auto saves seem to go every 8 minutes and why sometimes it’s 40 minutes between auto saves. Also doesn’t explain why it will save a file, even if I do nothing.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Gabriel Sanchez]

This is really weird. I don´t know how to help, sorry.
Try updating PPro.

Regards

[Trevor Ward]

Ah ha. I found THIS in the Adobe help pages.

*****Note: Premiere Pro will only execute an auto save when there are unsaved changes in the currently opened project. This also applies when the program is in the background or minimized. The potential consequence for leaving a project open with unsaved changes for a long enough period of time is that eventually all of the auto save versions will become identical, wiping out potentially useful versions to roll back to. Adjust this preference according to your workflow or close Premiere Pro when you will be working on other applications for an extended period of time.****

So, what this means, is that if you are working on a project and start to make changes, the “countdown” begins. If you manually save, then the “countdown” starts over. If, however, the countdown reaches your time limit set in the auto-save preference, then PP will automatically save the file.

I like this. Seems like it should work like this. However, what happens next, as described in the later part of that paragraph, is bothersome and not intuitive or helpful:

If you make changes and do not manually save, auto save will save the file. If you are checking email or go to a meeting or go to the bathroom to take your morning do-do, and you forgot to save, auto-save will kick in. HOWEVER, if you are taking a long do-do or whatever, autosave will continue to save every 10-minute or whatever, until you manually do a save. How this is NOT GOOD is after a couple of hours, you may have 12 autosave files that are all identical. You may even no longer have actual backups of the file in the autosave folder.

Seems to me that once a save has been made, whether auto save or manual save, the countdown times should not be activated. Seems like a simple line of code.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Gabriel Sanchez]

Is good to know it, thanks for sharing.

Regards

[Greg Kuhn]

I just figured this out…the hard way…it is insane that is only saves when you DON’T save! Minutes are IMPORTANT! Needs to be changed to Auto-save regardless of the last time you saved.