Which is more dangerous: a) a car with no brakes, or b) a car with good brakes that suddenly fail just when you need them most?Īs someone who has just spent a lot of money on Premiere Pro, I'd say the answer is a), but personally I'd buy a car from a different company. The point with Premiere Pro is that when you see it apparently saving your work automatically, you're surely less inclined to save it yourself - even if, unlike me, you're not hopelessly naive enough to think that it's actually saving it properly, so you don't need to repeat the task. As a journalist for 30 years I have a well developed left-thumb-and-finger twitch to save my work in Word etc every so often. With respect, I think the suggestions to save manually are missing the point here.

I couldn't imagine working that way.įurther to my previous post, I've just seen Simon's message and link, and am shocked to discover that Adobe has presumably known about this problem for at least two years, and has done nothing to sort it out. If something goes wrong, there's nothing there to cover you. But if you make the autosave your main way of saving, there is now no back up solution, no safety net. When all else fails, it's really great that it's there and can save you from catastrophy. I always think of Autosave as like a safety net.

It would be great if the autosave was improved in Premiere, it does tend to pop up at odd moments and take far longer than autosaves in any other applications I've used.Īlso, I'm really surprised reading through these threads how many people don't just hit save now and then and instead use the autosave as the main method for saving their work. Johnricca states that once the maximum number of autosaves is reached, they start getting overwritten incorrectly, resulting in them all being the same and all being out of date.

The disappearing autosaves sounds a lot like the problem mentioned at the end of this thread:

Mac turn off autosave for an app