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Configure autosaves and backups

Configure autosaves and backups - Illustrator Tutorial

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Configure autosaves and backups

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- [Instructor] With Astute Graphics Autosaviour Pro, never again will you have to worry about losing minutes or hours of work if Illustrator crashes or freezes up. And you can also use the plugin to create automatic backups of your files. So you can easily revert to a specific version of a piece of artwork at any time. So let's take a look at Autosaviour Pro. With the plugin installed on my machine, I'm first going to create a new document. I'll accept the default settings. And immediately, I get a dialog box where I can configure my autosave and backup settings. I can choose to enable or disable autosave for this document, and I can choose how often the plugin will save the document for me anywhere from one minute all the way up to two hours. And if I wanted, I could enter a custom value in here, like 1.5 minutes to save every 90 seconds. But I'll choose every 10 minutes. And I can have the document saved automatically…

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