Lion's autosave feature is too much

Question

Is there any way to reduce the amount of autosave? by size or time?   The autosave is saving duplicates faster than I can delete files to make room. Purchased a $700 SSD drive and it is filled up with no many working files.  Please help!!!!!!

Answer 1

Autosave doesn't use any storage space at all. It merely saves a document every five minutes while it's open, replacing what was already in the file.
Versioning does use some space, but not much under most circumstances. It saves a version of the document once an hour, or more often if you so choose, but only the differences between versions are stored, so usually each version will take up much less space than the original.
Unless you're working on very large documents, and making big changes to them frequently, the space used by versioning should be negligible. Only a few applications currently support versioning, and none of them really lends itself to filling up a whole storage device, even an SSD.
Duplicates, on the other hand, are not created automatically. They're only created at the user's request. If your volume is filling up with duplicates, don't make so many.