Howdy MG,
Autosave works in the background when saving your files, so that it doesn't interrupt your workflow. However, there are conditions that will disrupt it from working properly (we do have it on the list to make this more robust, though this is the first report I've had of it not working properly).
- If you're working on really large files, and have the save interval set too low, it can't completely save a backup before the next gets called for (this is the main issue we're looking at fixing, but it affects the following conditions as well.)
- running other applications at the same time (ie so there's not as much "background" time for it to run)
- short backup intervals (2-3 minutes, just because that doesn't give it the background time it needs)
- older or slower machines (especially if combined with the above conditions)
You can try changing the settings in File/Autosave options to something less demanding, like backup every 5 or 10 minutes, and make sure that you don't have other unnecessary programs running in the background. Also make sure you don't have something like background virus scanning going on at the same time. In those cases, Composer won't have any "background" time to run an autosave
ttfn,
Sherry