IMovie no longer auto-saves?

I have imovie '09 and lately my videos don't save automatically. If I close imovie and open it back up again any projects I have been working on are gone. Also, all past projects I have worked on are not viewable. This first starting happening when I reinstalled iLife because imovie would freeze and crash every time I opened it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Not sure what's causing these symptoms... Here's a couple of things you could try:
A> Ensure you have the latest update of iM09 using Software Update tool.
B> When you're done editing a project, go back to the Project Viewer and use the Duplicate Project option in the context menu when you right-click on your project. This way, you'll have a copy of your project, before you exit iMovie. I do this for safe measure on longer projects
C> Use the Share -> QT Export option to save a rendered copy in the highest resolutoin you're working with... this way, at least you have a backup version if iM doesn't save your project!

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New imovie project - no auto save, losing work.

new user here....this is my scenario: I create a new imovie project and add in all the video clips, photos, transitions, titles, music, etc. It is looking good but it is getting late so I will finish this the project tomorrow. There is no save function so I just shut down the computer. Next day I open my project and the auto save function has not worked. A few video clips have been saved but 90% of my work has just disappeared. What have I done wrong?
Supporting info - brand new IMAC9,1 with Snow Leopard, 1 terrabyte memory + 2 terrabyte timecapsule.

normally it should save.
Sometimes if you don't give the project a name it is easy to start another new project with the same default name - "new project"
Sometimes I have noticed that if I have a title edit screen open and do not click done, it will not save.
Also, did you shut down iMovie before shutting down your computer? It should not matter but it couldn't hurt.
The Project File is a text file and it is updated after every edit.
Some people have reported that when they use two many of the fancy titles (Quartz Extreme titles) that their project gets corrupted and wont save. I haven't experienced this myself, because I keep my titles pretty simple.
Maybe others will have ideas as well.
Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

IMovie - need to auto save to MyVideos. Where is the preference?

iMovie - I need to save all my iMovie imports, "MyVideos" folder might work.
How do I make any folder the default folder to save certain documents?
Looked in Preferences. Everything winds up in Home.

All your imports should be in the <user>/Movies/iMovie Events folder.
What version of iMovie are you using?

After I upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, QuickTime no longer auto names and auto saves, my recorded files.

After I upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, QuickTime no longer auto names and auto saves, my recorded files.

Try using one of these video players. VLC usually works with most files.
Video Player - Divx
Video Player – Flip4Mac
Video Player - VLC

After I upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, QuickTime no longer auto names and auto saves, my recordings

After I upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, QuickTime no longer auto names and auto saves, my recorded files.

HI,
In Message Menu > Preference > Accounts you should at least have the iMessage Account (Which is Enabled) and th Bonjour one that most likely is not.
After that if you had iChat type AIM valid Screen Names or Jabber IDs in an earlier OS then the System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars should list them and have them set to be used with Messages.
There is a vague chance that you have not set these up yet (you can do it in Messages or Mail, Contacts and Calendars)
Once you have a t least one other "Account" other than th iMessage one in Messages then the Buddy List option will appear next to CMD and 1 in the Window menu list.
NEXT
If you go to the General Section of the Messages Preferences you can unlink several Buddy lists if you have them (By default they are shown as one gathered Buddy list)
I Have several Accounts logged in (AIM valid and Jabber ones)
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Auto-save in Logic 8

Hey Guys
I've been trying to find an option for auto-save in Logic (and to set how often it does this)... but I can't find anything...
Does it just do auto-save in the background? Or is there no auto-save feature?
It's easy to forget to keep saving in a long session and would be nice to know Logic does it for you!!
Cheers
Mike

I'm sure that Logic will never need auto save.
the reason is: Logic have a .crash save function...
it works great... (if you don't use 3rd party plugs with false Audio Units validation Pass.
I'm a Logic user from the Notator version...
Auto save is dangerous...
the only usefull thing should a Fix with save before Crashing happen
Auto save is not "intelligent solution"
*Logic 9 should be comes with an intelligent way to save function that works ONLY WHEN AND IF NEEDED*
I'm sure that Logic 8.1 will solve the .crash issue with 3rf party plugs that are intentionally developed with only AU version bugs.
this is another of the "milion" fermusic ideas about sh*t auto save dangerous and *really obsolete* function
No Auto save... *vote for an intelligent way to automatic save function*
(vote for fermusic )
Thanks... expacially focused to Bee Jay and Erik

Windows task bar no longer auto hides when I fullscreen a flash video.

Like the question reads, my task bar is no longer auto hiding when I full screen flash videos in firefox. Other than the obvious issue of it just being unsightly and annoying, It also causes a few other problems. One being that the computer no longer recognizes that a fullscreen video is playing so it goes to screen saver, and goes to sleep at its normally timed intervals.

If you're using higher DPI settings, please check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" on 'firefox.exe' (=> right-click - Properties - Compatibility tab).
Also see https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/880714

CS6 Auto-Save: 1 step forward, 1 step back

I have done a little testing with the auto-save, and there is some progress with CS6 - especially in the area where earlier versions would stop playback or scrubbing to fire off an auto-save.
It looks like the auto-save does not stop playback or scrubbing on the timeline anymore. It will stop you from other operations such as moving an audio slider or other non-critical mouse clicks. I tested with 1 minute intervals, and it appears that it won't auto-save during playback or scrubbing in the background, and will wait until the next interval after playback has stopped until it saves. (Instead of taking the very next possible moment after playback has stopped to makeup for the save) This seems like it could create the possibility that if you are playing back or scrubbing during multiple interval moments, you could have a long period where there are no auto-saves - especially if you set the interval to a high number. Like I said, I only tested with a 1 minute interval, so maybe this functions differently if you save every 10 or 20 minutes. Maybe then it will do an auto-save right after playback has stopped if it has been awhile.
The step back is that if you hide PPro, (I'm on a Mac, btw) instead of just bouncing the dock icon during an auto-save like previous versions, it will actually bring PPro to the front and block out/cancel anything else you are doing on your machine. How annoying! I can't figure out the reason to have it function like this. If it is simply hidden behind other windows, it does not do this, instead only brings to the front the small auto-save progress bar - It only happens if you hide the appplication. For example, if you are moving back and forth between PPro and AE, you could be working away on a comp in AE and suddenly PPro jumps to the foreground to let you know it did an auto-save. Since I have 2 monitors, I like to hide apps that I'm not working in to hide pallettes and other windows so I can have my desktop back. Seems like the solution for now is to not hide PPro ever and to do a proper save more often to avoid the issue of potential long periods of no auto-saves. (And submit a bug report?)
Anyways, long post for a potential trivial thing, but for those who care about this, it is a change. Anyone else experiencing this?

Jim,
Exactly, and that is what the "1 step forward" is with CS6. It drove me crazy when Auto-Save would interrupt playback. I was suggesting that it would be a better option that if you are playing back during an auto-save interval, it should take the very next opportunity to fire off a save, like maybe after hitting stop when there is a moment of downtime. However - in my testing - it looks like it skips that interval completely and waits for the next one. So, if you have it set to save every 10 minutes, but are playing back your timeline during each of those 10 minute intervals, it will never auto-save even if there are large stretches of time in between when you are doing nothing. It seems like it could be more intellegent about when it saves, and do it quieter in the background.

Word File Takes Longer and Longer to Save

I’ve been working daily on the same 100-page document for several months. I had no problems with the document under Word 2003. However, under Word 2010 the file grows in size over time, and saving the file takes longer and longer to the point where there
are significant timeouts (Word is “not responding”) whenever an automatic save occurs.
I don't want to diable automatic saves because Word does crash for me on rare occasions, generally if I do something "too fast".
I’ve found a workaround for the problem, and every three weeks or so after the automatic saves have become painfully long I copy the document to the clipboard (except for the last paragraph mark) and then I open a new document based on the relevant template
and I paste the clipboard contents into the new document. I rename the old version of the document and the new version becomes the working version. This reduces the file size (currently around 1.4 MB) by about 150 KB and the problem goes away for another three
weeks.
Certain aspects of my situation are unusual, and these may or may not be relevant to the problem:
At the end of each day I use (via a macro) the Review, Compare feature of Word to compare the document with the previous day’s version to allow me to reread any changes I made to it.
I use various other macros for intelligent page-turning, resizing windows, smart Find, etc.
I maintain the document as a DOC file (Word 97-2003 Compatibility Mode) because I need to share the document with an organization that requires this format.
The document flips back and forth a few times between being a one-column and two-column document.
The document has a table of contents on the last page.
The headings in the document have embedded section and subsection numbers.
The document has numerous embedded SEQ and cross-reference fields.
The document has embedded EMF pictures that were generated by a non-Microsoft application.
The long times to save the file and the temporary solution I’ve found to the problem suggest that some "junk" is accumulating “in” the last paragraph mark. This junk doesn't cause any operational errors, but it slows things down to the point where
the auto-save times out and I temporarily get the distracting "not responding" message. It would be nice if Word could automatically eliminate the junk in the last paragraph mark so that I wouldn’t have to do it manually.
Do you have any suggestions for how I might eliminate the problem?
I'd be pleased to send a copy of the slow-saving file to a Microsoft Word programmer for diagnosis of the problem.
I have up-to-date Windows 7 professional (64 bit) and Word 2010 14.0.6129.5000 (32 bit).
Thanks for your help,
Don Macnaughton

I am experiencing exactly the same save issue, although I cannot use the suggestion of copying to a new document as I have allot of references within the same document and I'm scared that I'll loose them (or mess them up).
It is nearly a year later, did you have any luck?
Francois,
I'm still experiencing the problem. However, I've now converted the document from a DOC to a DOCX, but that made no difference. So every 18 or so days I copy all of the document into a new document except for the last paragraph mark
and the problem goes away for another 18 or so days. For my document this solution is fully reliable although it's less convenient because it's a little complicated and I worry I may make a mistake or some text may be lost in the transition.
So I'm still looking for a solution to the problem. Is there anything unique about your document or your handling of the document that might be the cause of the problem? Are you using macros, Compare Versions, switching back and forth between
one and two columns, or anything else that is common to the features that I list in my first post in this thread?
You might want to try my copying solution as a test while keeping your original document as the official version that you continue to work with. You could then check the test document very carefully to see if my solution works with your
document. You might find that you can trust my solution (or you might not).
By the way, I make sure that the copy worked properly by doing a Compare Versions of the old and new documents. (Surprisingly, sometimes the compare finds very minor differences between the two documents, but usually not.)
If the problem really bothers you, you can hire Microsoft Support, although that will cost you some money. If you do that, please let us know the outcome.
Don Macnaughton

Outlook 2013 won't auto-save emails if encryption or digital signature is enabled.

In Outlook 2013, I recently noticed that although I have Autosave enabled, I never get drafts autosaved. The option is located in File > Options > Mail > "Save Messages" section > "[ ] Automatically save items that have not been
sent after this many minutes [3]."
Experimenting with why I have lost 2 long emails after system crashes, I discovered that Outlook 2013 will
only automatically save emails if the Encrypt and Sign buttons are turned off. By default, I enable both in our corporate environment. So I never benefit from auto-save. I've changed the Autosave location and tested various other settings to
no avail. But Autosave always works fine if there's no digital signature or encryption enabled.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is this a bug?

Hi,
I just tested on my Outlook 2013 and experienced exactly the same.
This is pretty much by design, actually you may find you are even unable to manually save these emails as drafts if encryption or digital signature is enabled. I can also confirm some email service providers don't allow saving Encrypted Emails
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FCPX undo / auto save bugs + RAM Hog - Possible Fix?

Hi there FCPX users,
I have a 8-core 2010 Mac Pro with 16GB Ram and the stock GPU running Lion 10.7.2
I have been using FCPX since day dot, and have been overall very pleased with its super fast work flow and realtime capabilities.
I have completed over 100 3-4min edits with average project size of 50GB, and a bunch of wedding edits with approx 150-200GB project sizes. The issues I had with 10.0.0 - 10.0.1 were mainly FCPX quitting unexpectedly.
And now on 10.0.2 I have expereinced the well known auto save / greyed out undo bug. I have gone through all the steps via apple care which included:
Trashing the Prefs, repair permissions, check drive space / correct format, new user account and clean install of lion / Final Cut X.
I am still experiencing this issue. So yesterday I purchased another 16GB Ram totaling now to 32GB Ram, and I monitor the RAM usage via "Free Memory".
I Noticed that if my RAM is running low, I "free Memory" without quitting FCPX and continue to work as normal, and so far I have not yet experienced the issue again.
Dont know if this is a temporary fix, but it has worked for an hour long edit (approx 6-7 hrs without restaeting FCPX).
Also, I have noticed FCPX will eat up 16-20GB RAM quite easliy.
Not sure if this problem is related to RAM...
My 2 cents.

You have to really be conscious when you start a new project and how and where you manage your footage.
No one has complained more than I have about FCPX's quirky behaviors and it can be frustrating. I have worked with FCPX since day one, even tried to get a refund but couldn't. After using it for a while now, it is very easy to get used to how fast some elements are in editing and reviewing a lot a footage. But several things you have to make sure of that will keep the rendering speed up and less crashing happening.
First make sure that you can see how much space you have on your drives by right clicking in the main window of you screen and make the necessary clicks form the drop down menu. Make sure any drives you have been doing projects with lately are hooked up and do a secure empty trash. Its cool to see how much space you regain. 2) make sure that FCPX, Motion and Compressor (if you have those are installed on your boot drive).
3) Create a FCPX Projects folder on an external (FW800) with at least 75% of its drive space available if you do not have secondary drive installed in your computer. (Its very important to note that any drive you use for any aspect of editing should never be more 75% full, especially your boot drive.) This is where FCPX will log all of its operating files for all of your projects.
4) Either copy all of the other FCPX files from your main hard drive and paste then into the new folder you created. Then delete all of those files, as well as any Motion files too! (Do the same as you did for FCPX in the previous step)
5) If you need to move all of your music files to another drive as well. If its iTunes, you will have to tell iTunes where to look for the new files and it will populate accordingly. This will free up a tremendous amount of space. Make sure to delete them form the main drive.
6) Remove any junk programs form the boot drive (main) or move them to another drive if possible.
7) Now do another secure empty trash and watch your drive space return.
8) Now open up FCPX and make sure you only create projects on your new drive by clicking on that drive in the project window. Any older projects you can simply pull them to the other drive and you will be prompted on how to duplicate that project and all its files to that drive. Delete the other ones.
9) Only capture footage to you external drives. Save it there until you need it.
10) Create all new projects on the secondary drive and pull any footage you are working with on that drive as well. By keeping it all off the Boot drive FCPX will run much smoother and faster, especially if you have at least 16g of Ram, which I recommend.
So to re-cap:
1. Keep your boot drive lean. Delete anything you can move to another drive. Do not set up events and or projects to it...never!!!
2 Use you secondary drive for your project files and the video you are working with in your events.
3. Store raw footage on a FW800 drive ready to move to your secondary drive.
4. Use secure empty trash after all editing sessions when you are certain of your trash contents.
Doing these things have greatly increased much more consistently faster render times and much fewer crashes.
iMac 27 - 3.5gh - 16GB Ram - Quad i7 - 250SSD/1TBesata - External FW800 Drives
Good Luck

Auto-Save-Option with increasing filenames (counter, timestamp eg.)

Hello!
I want to pdf a job of 30.000 single printer pages, which are generated by a computer programme.
I'm able to choose the Autos-Save-Option by setting a dedicated folder at the printer settings. But there ist no option to install an increasing filename (counter, timestamp eg.). For that reason Acrobat overwrites the previous file each time (30.000x).
In some freeware-tools this funktion is implemented. Where or in which version can I find this funktion in Adobe Acrobat?
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Hi, HiddenMist,
Following the suggestion, I have removed all information I can remove. I have set all settings to "contacts only" that can be set to such. I cannot change my avatar because I cannot save changes (without adding my last name, which is currently blank). I have left everything blank that I can leave blank. I have been contacted three times after I have made these changes, as suggested.
In the Windows Desktop version of the Skype software, I can navigate to my profile settings: Skype -> Profile -> Edit your profile.
My work-around still works ... for me, at least, which is why I continue to recommend it.
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Did you know that if you look up how to delete your name from the Skype directory, it says that you are effectively disabling your account? Your name will not show up in searches, and it will remain in the contact lists of those who have already added you, but those contacts will no longer be able to call you.
Yes, indeed, this is true.
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Auto save didnt

I guess I dont understand "autosave" I was editing a very important job appication in preview it was a unlocked pdf. I deperatly wanted to save as I made changes to it. But i know I 2don't have to right? shouldn't the last version be saved. To make an already long story short. Lion locked up again. I had to force quit and the work I would have saved was gone. Is there some place to look? I tried time machine with no luck. Also when using word for mac 2011 it does not seem to auto save, does it. Lion is so slow and I am having to force quit and restart more than I have come to expect from apple. I think that they should return to features and return to rock solid OSX that made me a convert back in 2002.

Old ways wrote:
I deperatly wanted to save as I made changes to it. But i know I 2don't have to right? shouldn't the last version be saved.
Yes, it should.
Lion locked up again. I had to force quit and the work I would have saved was gone.
If the system freezes, it can't auto save. A freeze is a freeze.
Old ways wrote:
Lion is so slow and I am having to force quit and restart more than I have come to expect from apple.
Here is your real problem. Something is snarky with your system. Mine is rock solid, fast and have never frozen.
You need to find the cause.
There are some simple troubleshooting steps you can take.
Be sure you drive is not overly full. Rule of thumb would be over 85%.
(First, be sure you have a good backup, or create one now.)
Create a new User go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > "+" (make it an admin acct) and test the apps in this new account, if they work the problem is isolated to your User and not systemwide.
If the issue is limited to your user account try starting up in Safe Mode (It will take more time to startup because it runs a directory check.)
If your apps functions correctly that way, go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> Login Items and remove them. Boot normally and test.
If the issue is systemwide then, you may be able to repair by booting cmd-r to your
Recovery Volume and re-installing Lion. This will be an "install in place" and shouldn't effect your data and settings.
if none of this helps make a clone of your system and then re-format your HDD and do a clean install, migrating back only your own data.

Feature Request: Auto-save in Background

Here's a feature request I've submitted. If you agree, please submit your request to:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish/
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
Background Auto Save
How would you like the feature to work?
Auto-save would work just as it does today, except it would work as a background process, as it already does in Photoshop (without the Autosave popup getting in the way of the edit).
Why is this feature important to you?
The current autosave feature is terrifice and expected in any application today, but the current autosave popup dialog is useless. It only has a "Cancel" button. What's the point? I can't imagine when I would ever want to cancel an auto-save. And let's say I *did* want to cancel. The dialog is only on screen for a second or so. That's not enough time for user interaction, but it is just enough time for my work to be interupted, and for me to potentially hit the enter key as I go to Render something at precisely the same time.

Hi cscouper2013,
Thanks for taking the time to point out that my BSODs might be a problem with my RAM! Yes, I'll test it with the program you mention.
cscooper2013 wrote:
While I'm thinking of it, too. Sometimes Premiere will do an auto save only moments after I've done a hard save. That also seems like something to address in the next auto save feature update. If I have my autosave increment set to 5 minutes, then it seems to me there's no need to do an autosave for another 5 minutes after my last manual save.
I fully agree! That's something I requested during the CS5 beta program. I requested that every time a user does a manual save, the Autosave reset its counter. So for example, if the delay is 10 minutes between auto saves, and the user does a manual save two minutes before the next scheduled autosave, the autosave counter resets to 10 more minutes. But with the better solution of the current project constantly being saved after each edit, as Jim suggested, this feature wouldn't even be needed anymore.
MonkeyEatsMonkey wrote:If Premiere could "borrow" that functionality, while still retaining a "save as" option for versioning, I feel like we'd have the best of both worlds. It would even make dynamic linking more seamless, since changes wouldn't require saving. Any thoughts from the community on this?
That would be a perfect solution IMO! And yes, retaining the 'Save As' option would be very important!
I also like the idea of automatic versioning/backups (could be renamed to 'versions' since with a constantly saved project file, automatic 'backups' would no longer be necessary.
To resume, based on what has been discussed in this thread, I believe these would be the ideal saving options in Premiere:
Autosaving of every edit in the background without slowing down editing performance (as suggested by Jim).
Ability to create a user defined number of automatic backup versions, by setting maximum number of versions and time intervals (as is currently the case with Premiere).
In other words, the current project file would constantly be updated as the user edits. The automatic backups/versions would be created at user defined intervals.
Users would retain the ability to create a copy of the current project at any moment through the 'Save As' and 'Save a Copy' commands that already exist in Premiere.
Pop-up Auto-save dialogue boxes and the 'Save' command would be a thing of the past!
IMO, this would truly give us the best of both words as MonkeyEastMonkey suggests: constant saving as per FCPX, with the comprehensive versioning options Premiere currently offers.
Anything missing?

How to auto save passwords

Hi,
I want to auto save all my passwords without clicking on the prompt. I am reading there is a way to do that, although its called a "hack" so I am not sure how good it is.
Allegedly I need to make changes to a file called nsloginmanagerprompter.js. But I run a mac and I cannot see this file in my components folder. I run Firefox 5. (Upgrading it results is webmaster tools etc no longer working, which is why I am on an older version still)
Can you advise if I am doing the right thing by trying to do this with a "hack"? Sounds a bit dodgy. And if is ok to do it that way, why cannot I find this file?
Are you able to clarify?
Jen

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