KillerShotz Photography wrote:
I closed an image by mistake after I was done retouching it instead of hitting the minimize button I hit the close button and double clicked it by mistake and now is all gone. Photoshop should have an autosave feature for when you do something like that you can just undo.

Sorry your bad

RGK Photography wrote:

Sorry your bad

Yeah it sucks a program so expensive it would be nice to have auto save I think I should pitch in the idea to adobe for the next version. 

KillerShotz Photography wrote:
Yeah it sucks a program so expensive it would be nice to have auto save I think I should pitch in the idea to adobe for the next version. 

Yes, but there are some who like not having auto save because if you want to see what a change will do and the auto save happens and you realize it was a mistake....

The answer is if you have made changes and you think they are worth keeping you need to save. For someone who was working before auto save existed, save early save often.

Laura Ann Photography wrote:
Consider it a lesson learned.

Save often.  Just in case.

(but I do get the frustration.  I used to do that a lot with essays for school, but on Word.)

+1

Lynn Helms Photography wrote:
There was just a thread about this the other day. I don't think I'd like autosave. I backtrack way too much. Just hit Ctrl-S a lot until it's automatic.

Yes, auto save is dangerous.

Lunarimaging wrote:
I did this once...  never again ><  had a power outage in the middle of something unsaved as well.. I really dont think there's any way around it besides saving often, I wouldnt be a fan of an autosave personally.

Power outages were once a problem for me.  I bought an uninterruptable power supply.   But the obnoxious bleep when the power went off gave my dogs a complex.  As if I needed that bleep to let me know that the lights had gone off!

KillerShotz Photography wrote:
I closed an image by mistake after I was done retouching it instead of hitting the minimize button I hit the close button and double clicked it by mistake and now is all gone. Photoshop should have an autosave feature for when you do something like that you can just undo.

1. Why are you blaming the application for where the operating system put the close button?
2. Autosave has been discussed recently, and it has some serious drawbacks to go with the obvious benefits.
3. (optional) If this is a rant, it doesn't belong in the Industry forums.

Kevin Connery wrote:
1. Why are you blaming the application for where the operating system put the close button?
2. Autosave has been discussed recently, and it has some serious drawbacks to go with the obvious benefits.
3. (optional) If this is a rant, it doesn't belong in the Industry forums.

is not a rant I'm making a suggestion I'm sorry I did not know that this was disscused recently my apologies. Was just sharing an idea

KillerShotz Photography wrote:

is not a rant I'm making a suggestion I'm sorry I did not know that this was disscused recently my apologies. Was just sharing an idea

It was both a rant and a suggestion. It is ok where it is.

Lynn Helms Photography wrote:
There was just a thread about this the other day. I don't think I'd like autosave. I backtrack way too much. Just hit Ctrl-S a lot until it's automatic.

+100

After every layer I create I save what I am working on.  It's a force of habit now.  I've lost a lot of edits to my own stupidity so I got in the habit of saving.

Manuel Rego wrote:

+100

After every layer I create I save what I am working on.  It's a force of habit now.  I've lost a lot of edits to my own stupidity so I got in the habit of saving.

I didn't even know that you could save by just hitting ctrl-s

So I learned something new here. I'm not too good at remembering the shortcuts.

KillerShotz Photography wrote:

I didn't even know that you could save by just hitting ctrl-s

So I learned something new here. I'm not too good at remembering the shortcuts.

when you go up to the tool bar if there is a shortcut it will be shown next to the verbage

Creative Works LLC wrote:
An autosave should save the current state of photoshop and not just the image.  That way, you can still use history and undo.  It shouldn't be that hard to program, since the data is all there already.

NO.. you are overwriting the file

S de Varax wrote:
it's somewhat worse when the whole thing hangs on you then auto quits.
/sigh

Happened to me twice in the last 6 months!!!! I was FUMING!

Skydancer wrote:
I'm having deja vu with this thread/topic.

I've been using "ctrl-s" for so long, I don't even think about it.

But yeah, it would be a bummer to double click on the close button.

I felt so stupid I'm like arghh! I meant to close another picture and minimized the one I was working on but I did so fast that I closed the wrong one. Oh well I was just wondering that it would be nice to have a revert feature for when you do mistakes. oh well.

Creative Works LLC wrote:
An autosave should save the current state of photoshop and not just the image.  That way, you can still use history and undo.  It shouldn't be that hard to program, since the data is all there already.

Autosave is Automatically saving your file, over itself, period.  You are taking about "cache'ing" (SP?) a temp file for recovery...  Like M$ Office does, but in Photoshop, I would think the sheer size of the files being used would slow the system down everytime it saves a "state" that it would be useless to me.

I just save often and also keep all iterations (untill I feel safe to remove them...)
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MalameelPhoto wrote:
Autosave is Automatically saving your file, over itself, period.  You are taking about "cache'ing" (SP?) a temp file for recovery...  Like M$ Office does, but in Photoshop, I would think the sheer size of the files being used would slow the system down everytime it saves a "state" that it would be useless to me.

A large Office file is likely to be well under a megabyte unless it has video or such embedded. A small Photoshop file for a photographer these days is likely to start at 20 megabytes, and may well average 100 MB. How long does it take to save that? How much attention from the CPU and other resources does that save divert?

Programming an autosave would be pretty trivial. Programming one which didn't cause unavoidable interruptions and delays while saving the file (even "in the background") isn't so simple. As I noted in another thread, I suspect Adobe hasn't implemented it to avoid customer complaints.

If it's that critical a deal, get a 30 day trial of some systemwide macro and set it up to invoke a Photoshop Command/Control-S every X minutes. Work with it for a day or so (if you can tolerate it), and then decide if it's really such a good idea. If you still feel it is, spend the $20-$50 for the utility, and use it to your heart's content in Photoshop or elsewhere.

KillerShotz Photography wrote:

Yeah it sucks a program so expensive it would be nice to have auto save I think I should pitch in the idea to adobe for the next version. 

Not exactly a good thing, considering the fact that many work with high-res images which take time to save. It's a real hassle to need to suddenly wait in the middle of an edit just to let the autosave run it's course...

btdsgn wrote:
True about using the resources, but at the same time most programs with autosave have the ability to set the autosave frequency as well as the ability to turn it off.

True about using the resources, but at the same time, most programs with autosave don't routinely toss around 100 megabyte to 3+ gigabyte files.

There's a slight difference in load between a 500K Word document and a 500 meg Photoshop document--by a factor of 1000. Just because you're willing to wait--if you even notice--1/10th of a second for Word's autosave does not mean you'll be just as happy to wait 100 seconds for Photoshop to do the "equivalent". Or even 10, if it's not at a time of your choosing. (Not pre-determined every X minutes, but 'not now, I'm in the middle of using the Pen tool...' choosing.)

If you want it, it's something that can be added trivially; every modern OS has some provision for system-wide macros. Try it for a few days and see if it really is as unobtrusive as you think.

Yes, Adobe could design some backgrounding task to split the load over multiple processors. The bus load would still remain, and would be competing with other disk accesses and transfers. I suspect they'll add something in some future version, but this has been on their official wishlist since at least version 3, and the issues haven't really changed since then--drives got bigger and faster, but not as much bigger or faster than image files grew.

Jim Judd wrote:
I guess you clicked the popup dialog warning of unsaved changes?  That always catches my attention.

KKP Retouching wrote:
Mine asks if I want to save even if I just breathe on it before I close it- yours doesn't??

try double clicking on the red x in the right hand corner of your open/unsaved image