# Autosave doesn't

**URL:** <https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046>\
**Category:** Debugging\
**Created:** [October 20, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046 "2018-10-20T01:50:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/u/msundman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/1 "2018-10-20T01:50:05Z")

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My synfig crashes quite often, so it would be great if autosave would work so I wouldn’t lose so much work. But it doesn’t, and ~/.synfig/autorecovery is always empty.

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**Author:** ![Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/fadhilkwan/32/4216_2.png) [@Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Fadhilkwan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/2 "2018-10-20T04:36:08Z")

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Have you checked the settings (preferences) to see if autosave is on…? .\_.

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**Author:** ![ebarranko](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/ebarranko/32/4953_2.png) [@ebarranko](https://forums.synfig.org/u/ebarranko)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/3 "2018-10-20T05:07:42Z")

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Menu `Edit-> Preferences -> System -> Auto backup` and don’t forget enter an `interval`. I use 60s when I’m drawing and 5s if I’m animating.

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**Author:** ![msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/u/msundman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/4 "2018-10-20T06:19:15Z")

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Yes, of course I have Auto Backup turned on. (And before I wrote my post above I even turned it off and turned it back on again, to make sure it’s not a UI glitch.)

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**Author:** ![Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/fadhilkwan/32/4216_2.png) [@Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Fadhilkwan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/5 "2018-10-20T08:25:49Z")

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Ah, okay, i see… 😐  
What’s the Synfig version, by the way?  
It could be related somehow…

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**Author:** ![msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/u/msundman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/6 "2018-10-20T11:58:47Z")

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Synfig Studio 1.2.1 on (k)ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic, 1.2.1-0.1build1)

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**Author:** ![Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/fadhilkwan/32/4216_2.png) [@Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Fadhilkwan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/7 "2018-10-20T12:27:50Z")

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Have you tried the most recent version?  
The most recent version atm is 1.2.2

Additional note, the autosave was actually broken in the version that you have, and it got fixed in v 1.2.2

See Synfig’s post here for more details and dl links

> **[Synfig Studio 1.2.2 released](https://www.synfig.org/2018/09/15/synfig-studio-1-2-2-released/)**
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> We are happy to announce the release of new stable version of Synfig Studio! This version summarizes our work for the last 12 months, delivering several new features and  many important fixes. Plea…

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**Author:** ![msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@msundman](https://forums.synfig.org/u/msundman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/8 "2018-10-20T23:45:01Z")

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1.2.2 isn’t available for any ubuntu, as far as I can tell. But I tried the 1.2.2 appimage and that seems to work well. I have no idea where it stores the autosave file(s), but upon relaunching the application after a crash it does ask to recover, and successfully recovers the project.

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**Author:** ![Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/fadhilkwan/32/4216_2.png) [@Fadhilkwan](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Fadhilkwan)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/9 "2018-10-21T02:28:11Z")

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I… actually don’t know either… 🙄  
Maybe @ebarranko can answer it…

But at least it does work as it should be 💡

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**Author:** ![ebarranko](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/ebarranko/32/4953_2.png) [@ebarranko](https://forums.synfig.org/u/ebarranko)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/autosave-doesnt/9046/10 "2018-10-21T02:54:02Z")

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This version is very recent for ubuntu repositories. I don’t think it’s so useful to know where the files are, they’re not commun files, and they disappear when you save or ignore the restore. In Manjaro linux are in:

```
//home/user/.config/synfig/tmp/
```