ONCE ITS CLOSED PLEASE REMOVE IT WITHIN 30days. im tired of getting spammed like this with junk trolls and scammers ... please...please...please lessen to the current users and work on stability over features.

Background saving has screwed me several times by not saving changes that were made afterwards (for various reasons).

I love that you can now save in the background but unfortunately, because of the way AI works (when saving a pdf - replacing the current open file with the pdf) it creates a a huge issue with the native file then not being saved, because it switches and saves the pdf if you tell it to do so - meaning the native ai file saving is halted - so the next time you open the ai file it has not saved - but rather the pdf has saved, so you end up having to recreate. I have lost so much time and artwork this way. its just counter productive and irritating to say the least. I cant understand why it cant just work the same across the whole suite.

This only actually works if the file is being saved as an AI file with PDF compatibility. Doesn't work with non-PDF compatible files, doesn't work with saving the file as a PDF... so to say it's "completed" is somewhat misleading. It's only "completed" under very specific, restrictive circumstances.

(I've flagged the recent post from Anonymous: it’s a straight copy of a post from November with just a spammy link added to it)

@Eric, it seems to be working for me. Have you verified Illustrator has been updated to 2020?

@Rick, it sounds like you are talking about an InDesign document. Depending on the speed of your network 30 seconds to 5 minutes for an Illustrator file does not seem extraordinary to me since many files I saved which were complicated vectors easily took 20-30 seconds over an office network.

If you have a file that takes 5 minutes to save you need to consider linking files you drop in and not embedding. You also need to look at the files you are placing (assuming photos)... you don't need a 12x12@300ppi .psd if you are using it at 3" wide in your layout - thats just a lot of unneeded resolution clogging up the process. I do some complicated layouts (like a 48 page catalog with around 80 photos) and thats about a 2 minute save.

@tenrater No, I'm sorry, it doesn't do that yet. All work on the current grafic is halted while SAVE occurs. Depending on the speed of your network, the SAVE operation will hold you up for between 30 seconds (when I'm at work) or 5 minutes (when I'm working remotely.

So no, it's NOT fixed ... yet.

And pardon me for pointing this out, but your tagline makes it look like you're a spammer.

Hi Paolo and Pu,

Thanks for your feedback regarding the "Close Anyway" button. We have changed this behavior from showing a pop-up to a "soft message" (see attcahed image) which is not persistent. Now, your files will close automatically when saving is complete. Thanks.

Hi, know what? I had problems with the new feauture "background savings".
In my modest opinion, this is valuable only for people who work with very big ai files; infact, speaking about my situation, my workflow is concentrated mainly on medium-heavy documents, and I've always used to use the "combo" shortcut command+s - command+w, to save and close; the background savings has a conflict with that, because when you click command+w, the document is still saving and an alert popup comes out, and you have to click ok to close it...so a waste of time.

Thanks to Mr. Abhisheek from adobe tech support, we found out that we can disable background saving (both two options in AI preferences), and everything come back to normal. At least normal for some people like me, and many others ;-)

Hope this helps someone,
Have a good day :-)

Paolo - Italy

Please remove the "close anyways" button. It is not needed and is easily clicked in error when moving quickly. I have already lost files due to this addition. While I love that it saves in the background I wish it was treated more like Photoshop, where it notified you that it was saving and that it would close when finished.

The way this was implemented is stupid.
That pop up window you get when you try to close the window while it's still saving.
Why doesn't it automatically go away when the file has finished saving, instead of being persistent for no reason. Just make it work the same way as indesign.

How to save the document in the background using the script? This feature is available when doing the task manually but when this feature will be available while saving the document using the script.

Can anyone give insight into why this doesn't save in the background like many other (including Adobe) products do?

That would save a lot of time! Please add this feature instead of adding more and more changes that wouldn't make any difference in our work.

YES PLEASE. currently writing this while I'm waiting on Illustrator to save my files. It's 2019, is this going to be changed soon? This was submitted August 2017...

It would be super that Illustrator can save file automatically like Xd and to be able to work without waiting for the program to respond.

So the file is being saved in a background task which doesn't break a designers workflow.

Yes indeed it is an absolute MUST have. Adobe is so far behind they think they are first. Adobe Illustrator is very good at wasting your time. There is no reason why, when you have multiple files open, and you are saving one, EVERYTHING is locked out till that one file is finished saving. There is NO excuse for this!

This would be very nice, yes.