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Auto Save (in case of system crash)

Auto save take away the worry of saving and losing data.

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Muhammad Osman shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
feature-completed  ·  AdminDan Tuhoarca (Product Manager, Adobe) responded  · 

Hi everyone,

With XD versions 8 and 9 we’ve gradually released Auto-Recovery. This is a feature that restores files automatically in the event of an application or system crash. Auto-Recovery is enabled by default and available for both Windows 10 and Mac users.

How it works:
- While editing an XD file, Auto-Recovery runs in the background and stores the edits in a backup file at every 5 seconds. Every time you save the file, the backup is cleaned up from your disk, so there’s no impact on storage.
- In the event of an application or system crash, the backup file is used to restore the last unsaved edits to the original files.
- At next XD launch, the recovered file is available as a recent file in the Start screen or the “File” menu option.
- Recovered files can be identified by the “*” character added at the end of the document title.
- This feature has no impact on XD’s or your device’s speed and performance.

Auto-Recovery is not meant to substitute the workflow of manually saving the file. Continue to save your XD files frequently using the CMD / CTRL –> Save option.

Thank you for your patience and feedback! Update XD to the latest version and let us know if you experience any issues.

Best,
Dan

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    yes please allow for auto safe - so important for us especially because we work in a beta version that crashes here and there!!! I really want to switch fully from sketch but loss of hours of work is a problem

  • Jonathan commented  ·   ·  Report

    1- 0.6.16.7 Windows 10
    2- Apply standard auto-save functions, or auto-save every X time.
    3- If the program crashes or is closed by mistake, the work will not be lost.
    4- There is no auto-save function at all. Not even the regular (ctrl + s) is working properly; it is really frustrating to do it all over again.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wow... I just lost a whole afternoon of work... autosave is such an essential feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Auto save is working safe.
    Only today, my XD has crashed 2 times already and I haven't saved it for a while. Since I always lose way to many work with this, I would like to get an auto safe on this.

  • Simon Winkler commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have lost some hours of work, please add autosave

  • LLHH commented  ·   ·  Report

    I JUST LOST ALL MY WORK! Every other app have an autosave

  • Seb commented  ·   ·  Report

    @Elaine that's great to hear - better to add this kind of capability earlier rather than later when the software is more complex (I'd probably say the same thing about custom keyboard shortcuts as well).

    Somewhat related to document change history, I'd like to plug the "Repeat last command" feature here, which is a great little time/effort saver (and hopefully not that hard to implement?):

    https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/14400777-repeat-last-action-command

    And another huge time saver:

    https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/13471170-find-and-replace-text

    Vote for it if you want it :)

  • Maxwell commented  ·   ·  Report

    lost a couple days work... looked for auto-recovery files... wound up here :(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Autosave please, 8 hours gone (my own fault for thinking it would be like other adobe products)

    Live and learn

  • Jason Hornsby commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lost so many hours work to this! This feature is needed, also a save prompt when you close XD would be very helpful.

  • Dahae Yi commented  ·   ·  Report

    File recovery would be very helpful. XD just crashed and I lost some work. Thanks!

  • Levi commented  ·   ·  Report

    4 hours.... GONE!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please, please, please add autosave...I lost a half day of work the Friday before it was due when Xd randomly crashed on me. This should be an easy but super helpful feature to add

  • Brad Diedrich commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please provide File recovery as in other Adobe Apps.
    (I just lost some work in a crash ... (sigh) )

  • Adam Allaway commented  ·   ·  Report

    I ran out of power on my Macbook and it went into sleep mode. After I plugged in the power lead and the laptop woke back up I had lost all changes made since my last save. This doesn't appear to happen with other apps.

    Version: 0.6.2.7

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