Automatically Save Your Work on Your Mac On Any Application

John Martz | January 28th, 2009

I’ve suffered from Photoshop and Illustrator crashes so many times I’ve often wondered why these applications don’t have any auto-save features. Sure, if you work with extremely large file sizes it can be resource- and time-intensive to be re-saving all the time, and I often flatten layers and perform any number of destructive actions that I may not want to commit to a full save. But it would be nice to have the option, y’know? I’d probably swear at my computer less if once in a blue moon, Photoshop piped up and said, “You haven’t saved in a while? You wanna do that now?”

Enter EverSave, a free app (for Macs only, I’m afraid) that does just that — saves your work in any application, on a timed schedule or at any time you switch between applications. And, just as importantly, there’s an option to have EverSave ask before each save. Yes, thank-you.

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  • Why for Macs only?

    There's just one software I use that is totally reliable when it comes to saving or recovering files, and that's InDesign.
  • I'll give a whirl.

    I know exactly what you mean about Photoshop , though with my new machine it doesn't happen as often as it used to.

    Thanks for the tip.
  • Oluseyi
    Hmm. Interesting.

    I think Time Machine is a step in the right direction, btw. Time Machine is like a versioned file system, potentially allowing you to look back at previous states of a file. Of course, Time Machine is useless if you never save the file, so this EverSave combined with Time Machine is a half-way solution.

    The real solution will be when every application periodically commits your "transaction" data to the file version history, but only your explicit "save" get named. This would allow you to shut down an application and even your computer while working and come back to the exact same place in your process - layers, imported elements, everything intact.

    I can dream, right? :) Thanks for the link.
  • sweet, i'm downloading it now! the ask feature sold me.
  • GennaLee
    I've been using this for a week and I have to say it has been the best thing for me especially on my illustrator.
  • velochicdunord
    Umm, developing a reflexive action to hit Comand-S every five minutes or after a major move? I do.
  • About bloody time!
  • Try a PC! I've been running Windows XP for 5 years, and have only the foggiest recollections of crashing those program.
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