So krita’s autosave feature is only for when it crashes. If you save or close your project then the autosave gets deleted. I’ve never heard of an autosave feature that doesn’t actually save. It doesn’t make sense, why wouldn’t I want both a backup file and an autosave file in case I forget to save o…

Erm… I don’t understand… I you saved the document, you have a real saved document instead of the autosave, why you may need one more file? More than that, there is a “Save backups” feature that allows preserving files to be overwritten by adding ~ symbol to them. I don’t really understand what the p…

:slight_smile: Hello @Allic , and welcome to the forum! Oughtasave Plugin - An Autosave Replacement Michelist

Yes, but if I work on that document for six hours and then accidentally close the program then I just lost six hours of work. If the autosave actually saved then I would only lose 15 minutes of work. I think Takiro is right, if it doesn’t save your work then it shouldn’t be called an autosave. I’m o…

I guess the Create a Backup File on Saving setting is meant, found here: [Backups on saving] And I try to describe it here, including possible ways to prohibit the next disaster: [image] Krita deleted 12 hours of work Input Device Support slight_smile Hello @Chara_Dree…

When you close Krita with a file open that has unsaved changes it asks you if you want to save them. If you press No, then that’s on you.

Thanks for elaborating. I have gotten that popup before but not when I closed it this time. Could’ve been a glitch, that’s fine. Krita already makes a backup file when you save and I though that the autosave would save. So I thought I already had 2 backups. Also, what I think confused me is that I h…

Also, wouldn’t it just be easier to save the autosave files instead of having to make like 7 backups? I imagine it would save a lot of stress and time. Even if you do press “No” that’s a harsh consequence for human error. I agree with Skess01, just having a final autosave would be helpful. If you d…

Would you be so kind to explain, how it is implemented? I have a new not yet safed file. I have automatic save activated with an interval of 5 minutes. What happens? As far as I understand, a file with the name ~autosave_{date}.kra will be generated every 5 minutes and overwrittes the autosav…

About saving on exit, maybe a sort of “save a backup of the latest #n documents I didn’t save on exit” would be useful, no-one is perfect, so it’s possible to lose a lot of work, when in a hurry for example.

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Takiro June 27, 2025, 2:10pm 3

Rename "auto-save" functionality to "recovery-save" in UI Feature Requests

People often enough think that the auto-save function will save the work for them and then get disappointed when there is no file after they close the program and didn’t save the file on their own, and their hard work is gone. Honestly I can’t blame them, the name is a bit misleading when comparing what it actually does to other software. I think it would be better to change the name of the functionality to something like auto-recovery or anything along the line, to better convey that this is ju…

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