Text Edit auto save

Starting recently whenever I edit a text file with Text Edit a second file appears in the same folder of the main text file, with the +same name+ but with a tilde appended to the file name just before the .txt postfix.
I understand this is the result of the Text Edit auto-save function, however, different from the previous behaviour (probably before the 10.5.5 MacOS update) these auto-save files are no longer automatically removed when the application is successfully closed.
Does anybody have the same behavior ?
Is this a correct behavior ?
Thanks
Piero

They should close after saving or quitting the application. I have no idea where the tilde came from. Have you created a fresh account to test? If it works in TextEdit in the test account try this by logging back into your problem account...
Quit TextEdit, go to Users/yourname/Library/Autosave Information/com.apple.TestEdit.plist and move it to your desktop then relaunch Test Edit? You may also need to move Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TestEdit.plist to your desktop also.
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