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In the Forums: Disabling Autosave

ExpressionEngine 2 comes with a new autosave feature that is intended to keep you from losing work in the event of a browser crash or unexpected logout. User “goodcompany” asked about disabling autosave it completely.

I get a “autosaved data available” warning pretty often when returning to edit a post. It’s actually interfering with my workflow. Is there any way to disable this feature?

As Jamie Rumbelow pointed in the thread, there’s a config setting that allows you to change the interval between autosaves. Set that to 0 and you disable it completely.

Read the entire thread: Is it possible to disable autosave?

Posted on Jul 26, 2010 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: In the Forums

Neil — 00:13 on 07.27.2010

There is also a bug with this feature and Brandon Kelly’s WYGWAM where “array” is pulled back instead. Brandon is issuing a fix today - I am not sure if the bug is his end or EE end though.

John Morton — 12:09 on 08.02.2010

I’ve had bugs with autosave clearing out custom fields with the field type of File.