Best way to save your hair
Thursday 03 Jan 2008Saving your work periodically is just smart working practice. There are times when things out of your control will go wrong and your computer will go down. Nothing is more frustrating than working on a project, whether is a Word document or the next greatest thing to come out of Industrial Light an Magic, and your computer crashes… Or you leave your desk and someone else closes out of your project without saving for you. Losing fifteen minutes or four hours worth of work can really make you want to either pull your hair out, or just drop the project all together.
There’s no worse feeling that knowing you’ve got to start a project over from scratch. Thankfully, there is a quick way to save yourself at least some headache when these events occur.
Most applications now have a built-in autosave feature. While this is a great feature to have, it won’t do you any good if the project hasn’t been previously saved. To take maximum advantage of autosave, you must save your project first. A rule of thumb we practice at the studio is to save our projects first before we do any edits or begin the design process.
Open your application, set whatever parameters you need to set for this project such as document size, color space etc. and then save your project where ever you would normally save your work. Doing this will activate the autosave feature in your application (providing that there is an autosave feature built-in). Most programs will autosave every five minutes or so, so if your computer does happen to crash or something else disastrous occurs you’ll only be out about five minutes work instead of the whole project.
Working smarter, not harder… And keeping all your hair
chris | Office Productivity, Other Stuff
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