Yes, until its somehow automatically deleted during a syncing error and than you’re fucked.
Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months agoIsn’t everything being saved automatically anyway, when you work in the cloud (i.e. SharePoint)?
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 2 months ago
It's being saved, but not for you.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Love the snark in this thread
When ppl really Get It, you love to see it
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Libreoffice does this without forcing you to allow them to store all of your files. Because it’s a feature that doesn’t rely on any kind of cloud bs, MS just added that requirement because they are assholes that have no respect for their users.
manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I have to use Power BI for my job and it does automatically saves until it’s been open too long and then it stops automatically saving and also won’t let you manually save. Then you have to do a Save As for some reason, close every open PBI file, and reopen them, which takes approximately 3-5 business days.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Your Comment (version 1).xlsx has been auto-recovered. Do you want it?
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, thanks!
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
MS disabled the auto-save function for anything on a local disk, which is necessary for me because I use *gasp* version control software.
The_v@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.
I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Makes sense. You wouldn’t want to hammer that file onto disk every second.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Auto-saving works great except when I’m using an existing document as a template to make a new one only to remember 45 minutes in that I forgot to disable auto-save or make a copy to start with and the original document is gone.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh yes, I had this too. Templates filled with random content from various team members. Now we switched to dotx templates to avoid this kind of situation.