Autosave DOES NOT overwrite your scene, it saves in a separate autosave file, which is used to recover if the application crashes, and leaves your scene file untouched.
Autosave precisly implements what Kim describes; it's up to you to explicitely save your scene at your chosen check points. If autosave performed a normal save as implied below, it would render the scene backup feature useless.
> From: Wayne
>
> No offense taken because you're totally in the right. Thanks
> for bringing up
> some points I hadn't taken into consideration guys. Learned a little
> something (.xsipref, etc) so it wasn't a total wash. Thanks again.
> -wayne
>
> From: kim aldis
>
> I would never use autosave because saving is about fixing your work at
> particular, suitable points in time. Points when particular tasks are
> complete or for making temp backups when you want to try or
> test something.
> With autosave it's far too likely that the save will happen
> in a broken state or at just the wrong time. It also doesn't consider
> versioning and regular saves completely destroy any chance of the backups
> being useful unless you wack the count up through the roof.
>
> Much better to get into the habit of saving at the
> appropriate points in
> time.
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