Disable Auto-save in Projects

[kingdomhe...@gmail.com]

Is there any way to disable auto-saving the project or make the auto-save interval longer? Autobackup restoring is quite annoying, as you cannot restore over the project when it's currently open. The "manual save" option in File is quite useless due to that. I know it's dangerous to use a manual save, but sometimes, it may help when a mistake occurs.

Thanks.

[Simon Haynes]

The program zips a backup every 15 mins, and the open scene every 1m to 5m, so even if the autosave stores something you'd rather it hadn't, you can still retrieve anything you were writing before the save occurred.

You can always close the current project using File - Close.

I know authors who have lost six months of work using other programs, and the reason I started working on yWriter 20 years ago was to ensure I didn't lose as much as 30 minutes work, never mind that much.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 05:33, kingdomhe...@gmail.com <kingdomhe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any way to disable auto-saving the project or make the auto-save interval longer? Autobackup restoring is quite annoying, as you cannot restore over the project when it's currently open. The "manual save" option in File is quite useless due to that. I know it's dangerous to use a manual save, but sometimes, it may help when a mistake occurs.

Thanks.

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[S B]

That auto save feature has saved my butt a few times when a hiccup would happen. I love the auto save.

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