IT IS REALLY SIMPLE...

[vincent.tiburcio]

Why doesn't Revit let you save a backup local before it completely crashes?... I just lost 2 hrs of work

[ToanDN]

It would if it could.

Meanwhile, set Save Reminder Interval and DO NOT ignore when it pops up asking you to save.

[RobDraw]

Saving often IS simple.

[HVAC-Novice]

Not having an autosave feature, that saves in the background while you still can work in the project, is one of the most missing features.

You can vote on a request to make this possible. 

Until they provide that feature, manual saving after the reminder is all you can do. 

[mhiserZFHXS]

While I don't disagree that auto-save should probably be a feature, why in the world would you go 2 hours without saving? Even in programs that auto-save, I manually save at least every 30 minutes. Hopefully this is a hard lesson learned.

[HVAC-Novice]

I also sometimes find myself manually saving in Word or Excel, even if it autosaves. So I understand your paranoia 🙂 

But in Word/Excel the saving only takes as long as the click takes. Revit takes a few seconds during which you can't use Revit. This is annoying and I see how that prevents someone from saving "too often". I realize this is based on file size and network speed etc. 

That is why I would hope an Auto-Save in Revit would work in the background while one still can use Revit. Basically, unnoticeable instead of pausing Revit every 15 minutes for a few looooong seconds. 

I think OP learned their lesson the hard way. Sometimes that is the best way to remember the lesson....

[mhiserZFHXS]

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@HVAC-Novice wrote:

That is why I would hope an Auto-Save in Revit would work in the background while one still can use Revit. Basically, unnoticeable instead of pausing Revit every 15 minutes for a few looooong seconds. 

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It'd be nice if that were implemented for all saving, not just the proposed auto-save feature!

[HVAC-Novice]

Goes without saying.  I would hope if they can figure out background-saving it would be the same for manual and auto-saving. 

But you are right, one never knows.....