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Is there a way to retrieve your work after a crash, if you haven't saved for a while ?

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Have you tried praying and cursing a blue streak? – Lauren Ipsum Dec 10 '12 at 16:46
No, but I've tried putting garlic under my monitor and even rubbing it against the motherboard – Jevgeni Bogatyrjov Dec 10 '12 at 19:06
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There's your problem. Garlic doesn't do anything for autosave. You need rosemary for remembrance. Scatter some needles (fresh, please, not dried) under the keyboard and see if that helps. – Lauren Ipsum Dec 11 '12 at 1:33
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man, you are my savior! – Jevgeni Bogatyrjov Dec 11 '12 at 7:46

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I found this pretty useful technique using the "actions" panel to autosave. http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/scripting/autosave-in-adobe-illustrator-using-the-actions-palette/

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that's fantastic! – Jevgeni Bogatyrjov Dec 11 '12 at 16:53
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Hopefully someone at adobe reads tutorials like that and realizes they need to implement something like that on program level. – kontur Dec 11 '12 at 18:35
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As of CS6, no there is not an auto save feature in Adobe Illustrator.

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If you're on mac, you can make an applescript that does this but it's kind of a pain in the butt. Here's a link to a similar one written for photoshop. You can probably tinker with it a bit if your up to the challenge to save yourself some headaches.

http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1064

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