I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this.
 
Sorry, Bill.  If I had seen your post I most assuredly would have responded.
 
Paul

Auto-save every N changes is totally unusable, because it seems that turn of plug-in's knob can produce dozens of "changes". So this option needs rethinking from software design point of view, or it just can't be used. Auto-save every N minutes is more usable, but it also has a problem. It would save even if you make one smallest change in this time interval, and it is not always desired behavior I believe. So couple of more smart auto-save options must be added to make it work much better.

Adq
Auto-save every N changes is totally unusable, because it seems that turn of plug-in's knob can produce dozens of "changes". So this option needs rethinking from software design point of view, or it just can't be used. Auto-save every N minutes is more usable, but it also has a problem. It would save even if you make one smallest change in this time interval, and it is not always desired behavior I believe. So couple of more smart auto-save options must be added to make it work much better.

For this reason, amongst others, I never use auto save, but Control & S has become a reflex action for many years.

I use Save As more often than just Save, but I use auto-save every 7 minutes also, saving 7 versions. 7 minutes is not long enough to forget what i did. But it needs improving obviously. And also it would be good to add auto-versioning option when saving.

There should be an option to auto-save on stop. The current options just don't work for me either. So I Cntrl-S obsessively. The versions feature has been helpful, but I had to increase the #of versions to keep because I would have 7 versions essentially identical.

You remind me another issue I have sometimes, but I don't don't know how to solve it. Sometimes I have loop playing repetitively for long time, I do some changes in this time, and if I forget to save and it crashes, data is lost, because auto-save don't save while playing. Maybe there could be some reminder that project is not saved for some time.

It's the * next to the file name at the top.

Not being sarcastic at Adq. I am being sarcastic about the little star no one ever notices until it's too late. Isn't even there if you view full screen.

No, I mean something like "Saved 10 min and 100 changes ago".

Would be nice. Maybe in a control bar module.