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Tempted to say "saveless documents" (like @alexmitchellmus suggests here), but that sounds like it could be a can of worms.

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Automatically save composition to a backups folder every 5 minutes or so, keeping 10 or so most recent backups per composition.

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Would a save-less solution be

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Would a save-less solution be that crazy? All it would entail is auto save every n-minutes, and save when closing project.

When a new project is started it simply places the untitled project in a default folder. We would still have save-as.

But whatever is easier to implement.

Yeah, I was fuzzy on this --

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Yeah, Jaymie, I was fuzzy on this -- I'm not sure about Vuo conforming to Apple's saveless documents vs. the future of Vuo as a cross-platform app. QC has it, and I have gone back and forth with it, turning it off sometimes. When I think of Apple's saveless documents, I think of the pros/cons of the iOS model taking over.

by "saveless" do you mean removing the ability to manually save?

I would vote for a way to enable/disable the feature, and override it with Save/Save As.

Is that something you regularly use in other apps?

I absolutely love it in FCPX. I like the iCloud model, too (iWork, Notes, etc.). In other apps it can be awkward. For example, Logic Pro uses a slightly different method. TextEdit is awkward for me, as I'm used to using it "manually". Preview is awkward for this reason, too.

So if we did "saveless", we'd

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So if we did "saveless", we'd need the option to enable/disable it.

Apple holds a patent on saveless documents. So yeah, I'm not sure we could add the feature on Windows or Linux.

For implementing on Mac, looks like we'd have to significantly work around our cross-platform GUI framework (Qt) to access Apple's saveless document support (Cocoa).

With that in mind, feel free to create a separate feature request for saveless documents if you'd like.

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