My hard learned lesson on saving happened back in the early 90's using a sequencer software called Finalcut from a guy in Canada.  I had worked on a complex project literally all night.  Early the next morning my electricity went off....just for a second, but long enough to reboot my PC.  The whole night's worth of work gone in a split second.

Ever since that episode I have always saved on a regular basis when working on any project.

What's so difficult about just clicking "save" after you make a change? I don't auto save because sometimes I try things out and don't want to be locked into a change that I don't want to keep. But, if I change something that I KNOW I'm going to keep, then I'll save it right then and there. I mean.... what the heck is so hard about that?

Auto save doesn't lock you into anything. Auto save files are separate from manually saved files. 

I'm sorry but its common to always save every few minutes or so. Set up a keybind for the "SAVE". For me i keybindS" for Save and every couple minutes or so, i press the "S" on my qwerty keyboard. There's nothing more simpler than that.

You should also do a save as at crucial points in the project to a different hard drive.

Doing these things will prevent any major data loss

CJ

MelodicJimmy


What's so difficult about just clicking "save" after you make a change? I don't auto save because sometimes I try things out and don't want to be locked into a change that I don't want to keep. But, if I change something that I KNOW I'm going to keep, then I'll save it right then and there. I mean.... what the heck is so hard about that?

Autosave doesn't work like that - it creates ANOTHER copy of your cwp and names it accordingly.

You still have full control over what's in your "working" file when YOU choose to save

It's quite simple really. Anything that has not been saved does not really exist. It is transient and temporary. It is not data, but the virtual ghost of data.

Anything that has only been saved on one medium (i.e. just to one disk) is semi-permanent. It exists up to the point the disk fails or it gets deleted accidentally.

That is how computers are and always have been. No hardware, software or OS is invulnerable to crashes, bugs or user error.

Save often and backup to different media, often.

Here's another tip; don't save backup projects as bundles. Years ago I used them before per project & lost a few trying to re-open them.