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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Felipe Kamimura
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I can't believe i just lost 6hours of works because it crashed and the last time it saved was when I opened the file...
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CK J
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PLEASE!!! I need my XD file back! I've been working on it for days and it kept crashing so I had to uninstall and install it. Adobe XD has been acting weird recently. I should have noticed the pattern earlier.
I want my file back!!
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Anonymous
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I went into the save location - it has a zillion saves of random files I opened to glance at months ago - but it does not my final work before the crash. It appears to save a file as soon as I open it, but not any changes I make to it. Defeats the purpose.
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Anonymous
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I've found the location:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe XD -
Anonymous
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- Recovered files can be identified by the “*” character added at the end of the document title.
Where can i find these files ? By mistake i did not save the "*" can i find this file anywhere ? thx.
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Joe
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Adobe - I just lost a full days worth of work because XD did not auto save or back up at all - I'm working off the cloud which is supposed to auto-save every 5 seconds so what happened!?
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Alaa Sabateen
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So , where is it ?
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Anonymous
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I just lost an entire day's work. I save all the time. When I was finally finished for the day I saved and closed. Then I noticed that the date of the file had not even updated since the previous day, and when I re-opened the project - all my work was gone. There was no "Auto-Save" option as described here.
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tabs
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Adobe crashed and just lost a whole day of work. . .
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Sayam Keerthi
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I have been working on a project for a while now, and I lost my hours of work, I really do not find any feature that you have mentioned. To my shock, the cloud folder is empty too. I really do not like the feature where if you update an XD, the previous work would be lost..!! Please find workaround for this.
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Emeka Ugochukwu commented
I just hours of work. How do I recover unsaved docs after a crash? Why does this keep happening to me?
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asd
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Just lost several hours of work
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Anonymous
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Then why couldn't I recover my fillable form that got closed while I was working on it? I do not believe that you actually have this feature in your software.
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Desiree
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Confirmed that auto recovery does not work (does it even exist??)... I didn’t even shut down my computer adobe dc just disappeared entirely when my computer went to sleep, after reopening adobe, no * file anywhere in sight... goodbye half a days work!!!
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Zacharia Lentz
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auto-recovery didn't work. I lost many hours of work. Done with XD
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Anonymous
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Your auto-recovery does not work I lost three hours of work.
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Caleb commented
Unfortunately the autosave feature didn't work for me. XD Crashed and when it was opened back up, I couldn't find any recovered file (*) in the recent menu. Looks like others are having this issue so you might want to look into this.
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mexalim
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The electricity turned off and then turned on, but when I downloaded the document, I saw a 47 error. Lost many hours of work. Adobe!!!! Why?? Why we can not add simple function: "Auto save every 5 min"?
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Andrej
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Crash is still in, 4h of work and everything is just gone
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Anonymous
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I am using windows 10. Unfortunately, my system got restarted and no auto-recovery "*" was there.
Please help me. I have my work of 3-4 hours and important ones.