# RANT: Where's the autosave?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 1, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885 "2004-09-01T10:32:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DariusMonsef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@DariusMonsef](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DariusMonsef)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/1 "2004-09-01T10:32:09Z")
Seriously. With the price they charge for software programs these days you think they could take the time to add in a f-ing auto save feature. I got in the groove tonight writing a business plan and 5 pages and 2 hours later I try to use one of the \*\*\*\* features and it says “oops, I just shat myself and now I’m going to close and lose all your work. my bad.” Oh I am so pissed. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/2 "2004-09-01T10:34:51Z")
Yep, I can totally understand that. I experienced quite the same writing my masters thesis. From that point of time on I saved every ten minutes. Ctr+S became my best friend 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/3 "2004-09-01T10:52:56Z")
Yeah when writing code I have just a built in response to hit those keys every minute or so as I’ve lost tons of code in the past. I haven’t sat down to do technical writing like this in a while and this frickin program that’s supposed to help with formatting just helped me format a bottle of red wine, now I got to take 2 deep breaths and re-write this mamma jamma. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/4 "2004-09-01T12:51:31Z")
OOooooooo Thats the worst man. I use Office 2002 at work and it has to be the buggiest set of applications I have ever used. You would think I would hit CTRL + S every minute or so but never do. Word always says **“oops, I just shat myself and now I’m going to close and lose all your work. my bad.”** _BTW…that was the best error message explanation I have ever heard I am going to try to hack the Word shell on my machine to get it to say that_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/5 "2004-09-01T13:46:59Z")
I use ctrl+s all the time… it’s like a reflex or something… every time i change something in flash or somewhere and wanna test it… ctrl+s… oh there’s a typo… _correction_… ctrl+s I even press ctrl+s accidentally when I’m managin my files with windows explorer and stuff 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/6 "2004-09-01T13:56:42Z")
Yeah, not so long ago, pressing Ctrl + S used to cause Word to crash :-/ Not very convenient. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/7 "2004-09-01T14:05:35Z")
I remember one time I pressed CTRL+S to save only to be told the file I’d been making changes to foran hour was Read Only. I thought “If it’s Read Only then how come I’ve been changing it for an hour…odd”, anyway I clicked cancel for the save as and the bloody thing crashed. Thanks Gates, burn in hell :evil: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/8 "2004-09-01T14:16:09Z")
> [@EthanM](#): > > …this frickin program that’s supposed to help with formatting just helped me format a bottle of red wine Hahahaha Just don’t get drunk. What would be better than submitting a business plan written while you were drunk? ‘Do you have the business plan?’ ‘Yep, right here. Here ya go Mr. Boss-man-sir.’ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/9 "2004-09-01T14:34:16Z")
I ony CTRL-S in Flash, and I do it very often. What sad is Flash is just about the only program I have not to crash on me. Max does it all the time, and Windows restarts the computer automatically. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/10 "2004-09-01T14:35:51Z")
I use Save As for some reason. If you look at any folder where I am saving either in Flash or Word, you will probably see 5 or 6 copies of the file with a slightly different number in the end 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/11 "2004-09-01T14:42:46Z")
Flash does crash. The only thing that doesn’t crash on a Windows machine is the minesweeper. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/12 "2004-09-01T17:59:08Z")
Not quite the same thing, but one time I had almost finished a game of SW:KOTOR on my PC, and I was right at the part before fighting Malik, when my PC died. ☹ From then on, I save everytime I turn a corner. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/13 "2004-09-01T22:20:09Z")
My computer almost never crashes. :h: Well, now that I have XP I find it crashing a little, but aside from the occasional incident I don’t usually have to use ctrl+s ever. Ctrl+z, on the other hand, I use sometimes when I’m away from the computer! (well, I try) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rant-wheres-the-autosave/62885/14 "2004-09-01T22:54:13Z")
Note: It wasn’t my computer that crashed, just the program I was using.