I can’t believe Adobe haven’t introduced some form of auto-save. I lost around three hours of work today because Flash had a hizzy fit when I changed fonts on some text. Grrrr!
Apparently there is a third party extension to add this functionality though, so all is not lost. But still!
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Gallagher // Nov 21, 2007 at 1:14 am
First law of development. Save your work!
I learned the hard way too.
2 Cormac Moylan // Nov 21, 2007 at 9:45 am
Hindsight is great!
3 Alex Leonard // Nov 21, 2007 at 4:16 pm
You know, it’s weird, I don’t think I ever noticed that there was no auto-save on Adobe stuff.
It would definitely be a good idea, although it would need to be considered in the case of extremely large files. Some of the larger Photoshop or Illustrator files can take quite a while to save, and you don’t really want to be in the middle of drawing a line when your computer pauses to auto-save.
Still it could work nicely if it auto-saved after there was an inactive period of say 30 seconds or something.
The other problem is that my Illustrator CS3 seems to be having nightmarish problems saving .ai files, sometimes .eps won’t save either. I just get an infuriating message stating that “An unknown error has occurred”.
Unbelievably infuriating. The Adobe site offers some “potential fixes” but they rarely do it for me.
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