BACKGROUND AUTO-SAVE, Auto-save should not interrupt your workflow
The title says it all. Auto-save should function in the background and NOT pop up with an annoying progress bar every time it runs. Gets REALLY bad on large project files when auto-saves take up to a min every single time.
Total workflow killer. Should be just like taking snapshots of your project in the background while continue working.
The dialog even pops up and steals focus from another app you're in.
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Tim Drage
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2021 and still no sane autosave
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John Myers commented
Seriously this could be the simplest freaking change they could make in After Effects to improve our workflow (next to adding a "default separate x,y,x in preferences, god how many keystrokes I could save in a year.) Will this team ever bother to listen to their customers and the dozens of top voted requests they have ignored? Why can't one freaking person go through and respond to the TOP voted requests?????
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Mohamed Ali Ben Thaier
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3 Years and counting...
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Marc Trzepla
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Make Auto-Save a background function.
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AllTheGoodNamesAreGone
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strange... This had way more votes last time i checked in. What's the status of implementing this?
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SomeGreek commented
Not only is auto-save really intrusive and annoying while working, it's intrusive in the background while AE is minimised. Honestly, I don't understand why autosave has to be so annoying... surely it can do it in the background during inactivity, not the moment I start doing something. It sits there doing nothing for 10 mins, but decides to autosave the second I start moving an object.
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Ben Strickland
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Adobe devs; few things are more frustrating when you are under the gun and you have a large project that takes a while to save, and have it auto save, or you instinctively save after doing some work and having to wait 30 seconds to a minute.
It's super disruptive. 30 seconds might not sound like a lot and on average it isn't but on the outliers of the distribution when you have to get something out and you need to save it actually can be a huge advantage / disadvantage to have / not have things saving in the background.
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Colin Harvie commented
As an addition to this, it can cause scripts and panels to crash (and sometimes requires a restart of the panel or the entire application), if it tries to auto save at the same time as a script tries executing.
"Can not run a script while a modal dialog is waiting for response."
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Euan Preston
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Adobe PLEASE consider this. Autosave is essential, but it absolutely ruins creative flow.
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Anonymous
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This is especially problematic with Ae and Pr since the latest update. Any interaction with the computer causes these two programs to hang for 1 to 2 minutes. ie during Open, Save, Render Queuing, Close. The program just sits there in a (Not Responding) state (on Windows 10). It acts like it's trying to reach something that it can't and waits until it times out, then starts responding again. Almost like someone forgot to turn off a debug parameter that it looking for something on the developers file system that doesn't exist on a customers system. But I'm speculating on the cause.
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Charles Bevan
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PFTrack (and other apps) save with each interaction, and even save undo logs so when you re-open the project you're literally right where you stopped last time.
I did have one project go corrupt on me during a total system crash so just add shadow copies in the background and the ability to archive a version of the project and we're all set.
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D
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Just came back to comment. Why is this not under review for a new version?
This is KILLING me today. Auto-saves are taking upwards of 1 min each time. Total productivity killer
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Dave
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every change should be journaled. this way you don't have to save except when you want to ... get with the times Adobe.
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Tim Drage
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...on the plus side, on larger projects the existing autosave popup doubles as a free screen-break mindfullness app. :D
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Tim Drage
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It should not only be possible to run it in the background (but with the option to switch this off because it will be terribly unstable in itself and cause other problems I am certain!!!) but also either way it should not start autosaving if it would interrupt something you are doing. Wait a second or so after a click or keypress
If I have just pasted something, wait till it's actually pasted then do the autosave!
If i'm IN THE MIDDLE OF DRAGGING SOMETHING, don't autosave!
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Anonymous
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The auto save popping up and interrupting my work flow and concentration is absolutely infuriating and quite frankly an insult to all users. It's almost as though Adobe have created this software(which is basically a copy of FCP7), taken our money and then just left us for dead as they walk off into the sunset laughing whilst counting our cash. It's incredible that such a small problem is big enough to make every serious film maker so annoyed that they end up hating the over all software and yet they do absolutely nothing about it. After I finish my latest project I am defecting to FCP X. Pathetic.
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Steven Olver
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Absolutely agree with this and all the comments, frequent auto saving is a best practice but on large projects the auto saves become obnoxious and very frustrating.
It's 2019 now Adobe you can auto save in the background just like every other modern application does.
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Mohamed Ali Ben Thaier
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Come on Adobe devs please! This auto-save popup is really annoying, there are not even any third-party scripts that can fix this issue.
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Anonymous
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Drives me crazy
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Er, as a follow up to the comment I submitted prematurely...
Since AE won't run scripts while a dialog is open and it's busy, rarely (but still frequently enough to be an issue), I try and run a script right as autosave begins, which will crash / break my script.