Auto Save (in case of system crash)
Auto save take away the worry of saving and losing data.
Muhammad Osman
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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
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Please implement sooner.
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Colm
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Very disappointed. Lost hours of work. New update has crashed a couple of times now. Frustrated!!!!!
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Nate
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Lost Hours of Work Numerous times.... is this some sort of sick joke.... No Auto save?!?!
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Anonymous
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XD Crashed, 3 hours of work lost. Didn't even realize that this basic feature is missing. Disappointing.
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Stefan
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Uuu, so complicated to simulate user pressing save button every 5 minutes or so, this is a super simple feature that can actively be enabled by user, why don't you add this simply add it that way until you implement what ever you are planing to implement during all these years.
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Myles Kilgallon
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Just lost an entire morning's work. Thanks Adobe... Back to Fidelity for me. :/
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Mark
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Add my 5 hours to the mix. Dude who pointed out the irony of the poor User Experience for an app that helps you design User Experience is spot on.
This is unacceptable. Countless other applications have autosave (proto.io, Invision Studio, etc.) with nowhere near the type of resources Adobe has laying around in their sock drawers. "Hugely complicated" is not a reason. Fix it or you lose users faster than we lose work.
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Ben Swift
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.... I've never been so tempted to buy a mac and switch to sketch.
After losing a lot of work on a few occasions, I've gotten into the habit of compulsive saves ( feels, like I'm back in the 90's!?)
Today, I had to make a mockup on the fly during a call, I published the link and everything worked fine for the call.. then adobe crashed. I can still go to the link and see my original mockup... but the actual working file is gone. wtf!? At the very least you should be able to force a save when an assets link is published!?
I get that this is complicated... but, seriously.. how complicated can it be? It's 2018 and this is a monthly subscription... autosave should be a default... not an afterthought feature!?
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Anonymous
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F**k this shit , crashed and lost my 3 hours work -_-
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Jack Nycz
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It's been a damn year guys. Lost a day of work because a cleaning lady accidentally unplugged a cord. "Save more often" is not a fix - when you've been using autosave applications for years the habit just isn't there. Unacceptable.
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Anonymous
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Fuck this. Lost all my work
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Daniel Blom
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Would be handy in case of crash indeed. Otherwise, I've thought myself to become best friends with the CMD S (or CTRL S) shortcut and I can highly recommend it to others.
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Jochem Berends
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:sadface: I experienced massive dataloss due to not saving in between. I needed to reboot computer after power of the laptop was out and reverted back to 'early morning' state. Too used to autosave in applications.
using latest (apr'18 version) XD for windows. (WIN 10)
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Asaad
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I have lost countless hours of work because of the lack of an autosave feature on AdobeXD. I'm not even sure that the software properly saves my work every time when I do hit "Save". Egregious fault.
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Humberto Ferreira
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Why this feature is not implemented yet? How hard is to save N files in some hard drive location every N minutes where the old one is always overwrited? It's hard to accept that an application made for UI/UX Designers is giving a pain (it's all about USER EXPERIENCE) for its users.
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Kambiz Amirtash
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Happened again, this time lost 2 hours of work. Someone needs to explain why auto-save in XD is so difficult to implement it takes more than a year since acknowledgement.
Just ignore the current action being performed and save a snapshot of everything else by kicking off whatever happens when ctrl-s is pressed.
What's different about XD that makes it difficult? This problem has been reported and has persisted since this product was announced.
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Hobbes
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Just lost 3 hours of work ... XD crashed while exporting the assets I just spent 3 hours creating. I forgot to save :(
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Colin
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Just lost 4 hours of work because my PC crashed. Wouldn't be a big deal normally but I have been waking up at 4am daily to meet a deadline, making this extra painful.
I do not agree that this is a "hugely complicated feature." I have been a software developer for 15 years. Just send a faux CTRL+S event to the application and append .autosave to the file extension in this instance so that it does not overwrite the manually saved file.
Done.
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RIchard
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It feels like it needs a more sophisticated save tool. Having just lose a couple of hours work when it crashed, unlike Indesign there's been no autosaving in background to help you retrieve a file from just before the crash.
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Anonymous
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Just lost 4 hours worth of work because XD crashed and I foolishly assumed autosave would be a very basic feature that would have been implemented in this.
Thanks for taking well over a year with this and costing me half a day. I think its time to go back to Sketch.