1969 J. E. Sammet Programming Langs. ix. 689 An interesting safety feature is the autosave parameters option which is used with save to request that the state of the user's work be saved periodically (and automatically) for later retrieval if there is an unexpected system shutdown.

1985 InfoWorld 3 June 67/2 The program requires that files and articles be named before you can use them (because of the autosave feature)... This can be partially eliminated by turning off autosave.

1993 Microsoft Word User's Guide 498 In Windows, Word normally saves the temporary autosave copies of documents in the TMP directory.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Sept. b12/6 Then there are the inexplicable lapses in basic functionality, like the absence of an auto-save feature. The first time the program crashes..you'll be mad.

1982 InfoWorld 17 May 39/1 There is no provision to auto-save or append-to-files-on-disk commands.

1984 Personal Computer World May 268/2 The program also produces a file list on a tape, giving file name,..type of file..and whether or not it was auto saved.

2006 P. Mason In the Know (ed. 2) xiii. 276 Programs from the Program Editor are autosaved into pgm.asv.

1987 InfoWorld 9 Nov. 51/2 All auto-saved records are disk based, but searches react with the swiftness of a RAM-based system.

2007 A. Afzal UNIX Unbounded (ed. 5) vii. 193 Assuming that you were editing the file named Example when your computer crashed, then you will have the autosaved file named #Example# in your directory.