Autosaviour Preferences

Choosing the menu item Autosaviour Preferences... from the panel flyout menu will bring up the Autosaviour preferences dialog: 

Autosaviour Preferences

1. Show Message During Save/Backup

When enabled (the default), an annotation will appear during an autosave or backup operation: 

Autosaviour Saving Message

2. Only Autosave the Active Document

When enabled, documents that are open but not active (i.e., frontmost) will not be autosaved until they become active. 

3. Don’t Autosave/Remind If Document Has Never Been Saved

When enabled, autosaving or reminding will be suppressed for new documents that have never been saved until they have been manually saved at least once. 

4. Confirm Existing Autosave

When enabled, opening a document that has existing Autosaviour settings with autosaving enabled will display a confirmation dialog, allowing you to open it with autosaving disabled. This can be useful to keep from accidentally saving over a document when opening it just to copy, check, or test something. 

Autosaviour Confirmation Dialog

5. Use New Document Backup Location If Document’s Backup Location is Invalid

When enabled, and a document cannot be backed up because the custom path in its settings is no longer valid, Autosaviour will automatically try using the backup path specified in the New Document Settings dialog. By setting a valid path there, this saves you from having to change the custom backup path manually for many documents if, for example, you received them from another user whose path is not valid on your machine, or if you change a folder or drive name on your own machine. 

Autosaviour Backup Error Dialog

6. Informational area

Shows a brief description of each preference control when the cursor is being hovered over it. 

7. Help Button

Opens the help documentation in the Astute Manager. If this does not automatically appear, please ensure your Astute Manager is running first.