Despite that however, it does exactly what it promises in automatically saving documents and implementing back up versioning and despite being ‘hacky’ in how it works, it certainly doesn’t feel that way. To me, the only drawback it has is the requirement for manual intervention in saving a document for that first time – which is irritating when the pop-up alert didn’t show up. Although this is true, ForeverSave offers an advantage to this because of its versioning feature – Office only deals with sudden catastrophes, ForeverSave can backtrack a document to an earlier back-up.įoreverSave 2 does an excellent job in implementing an auto-save solution into applications that don’t already have it. At first I thought this would probably be better than ForeverSave 2 because it was inbuilt and completely automatic. It keeps a recovery file on anything that is unsaved in case the Office application suddenly quits before a user can save. Many of you will be familiar with Microsoft’s Office Suite and its auto-save feature. Yet with versioning in ForeverSave I opened up a version of a previous document and went straight onto adding the new features. It saved me quite a bit of time typically I would either save a ‘template’ version or work backwards on a copy. Rather than reversing the changes I made I would simply open the version of the original that was closest to what the next graph needed to be like, re-save it and then build upon that. I used it a few times when creating graphs in OmniGraphSketcher, I needed to create a number of graphs that were similar, each one slightly different to the original. Not everyone will need this but it’s a helpful feature that I’m glad is included. One of the benefits of ForeverSave’s auto-saving is that it means you also have automatic versioning of your documents, which is further supplemented by the ability to manually create a new version by pressing Cmd+S. By default it’ll stay open on your Dock, but if you are like me, you might want to have it reside on the menu bar instead – one simple preference change will let you do that. You can also manually force ForeverSave to create a back up whenever you save your document manually with Cmd+S – helpful if you’ve just made a large modification and really want to make sure that everything is saved.įoreverSave does have to be open in order for it to automatically save your documents but I noticed no impact on my system performance when I had it running. What makes that annoyance far less of an issue is that once you have saved it once, ForeverSave will then auto-save periodically based on your pre-determined time period without any interruption or manual intervention by you. Although unfortunately even the pop-up was occasionally absent, particularly in Photoshop, which meant that I had to make sure I remembered to save the document before ForeverSave would start auto-saving. But it isn’t because ForeverSave will prompt you with a small pop-up and jiggling the window quickly to alert you to just save your document. That sounds like a deal breaker, because it would defeat the purpose of not having to remember to save your document. It even contains information on how much size is being taken up by all your back-ups, which can be helpful if you accidentally did save thirty versions of your 100 MB Photoshop document.įoreverSave isn’t quite as magic as Word in the way it auto-saves your documents, you will have to save your document manually before it can auto-save. The bottom bar is also important, containing a search box, view options and options to restore a version or copy versions to the relevant folder. Then the below that is where all the versions of the document are kept. You’ll notice that the top third of this area contains a horizontal list of documents these are all the documents that have been saved. The left sidebar ‘Library’ lists all the applications that you have chosen to auto-save, whilst to the right are all the documents saved by the document. It is simple and pleasant, nothing is overdone and yet it still has all the controls you could possibly need. You (hopefully) won’t need to look at ForeverSave that often but that hasn’t meant the developers have ignored the UI design.
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