AIC Autosave Automatically Disabled Itself
AIC files autosave in Illustrator 28.7.1 for Mac Desktop is not working half the time. Some files it autosaves and others (usually the very large ones) don't. This hasn't been an issue before the latest release that I can see.
If autosave isn't working a prompt letting me know would be great. Also, a repeating prompt if I haven't saved in a while would be an added bonus.
Frank
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Gon Yahalomi commented
2026 and this issue persists...
I have the same issue as OP, but with Windows, using the latest version of Illustrator. Sometimes the AIC file simply stops autosaving - which, for me, is not the issue - I guess it's understandable that sometimes files get corrupted, or are too big, or something in the sync fails. I don't understand the technicality, but I can understand it happens. However, as OP says, the fact that there is no BIG prompt alert letting me know "Your file isn't autosaving anymore, if something crashes now you will lose all progress", is crazy. There is also an issue were File Recovery doesn't work with AIC files that aren't saving, online with local files. So essentially, if i use the cloud, and something crashes (which lets be honest can happen often even if my PC is very strong), I am sure to lose progress.
I also understood from support today that there is no AutoSave on local files anymore, which I remember having before the cloud existed. So if i want to save locally, I have to re-develop the muscle memory of saving on regular intervals. Honestly I can't see why solving these wouldn't be at the TOP of the list for feature development? Considering there is nothing more frustrating (and costly) than losing progress. -
Frank
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Files are 500MB. Larger mapping files using Avenza's Mappublisher plugin. I can tell they're not saving because I'm getting the asterix after the file name in my illustrator tab indicating it hasn't been saved recently. Illustrator has crashed once or twice in the last few days and I lost about 1 hr of work while working on an AIC file.
I've been using MapPublisher for 10 years so it's not a new plugin, though they did recently update that. I didn't notice the autosave not working in Illustrator v. 27.7, but it's happened with a few files since updating to 27.8.1.
It does appear to be working fine today so far though, so I'm not sure what's going on exactly.
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Frank, how large are these files?
Which version do you think was working better with these?
How can you tell the autosave is not doing a proper job? Please provide more details so that the team can start investigating, some data to deal with.
