With 3dsMax there was no other way because it was crashing at a unacceptable rate (still buggy to this date but improved a hell lot since max9). Photoshop was in the past always very stable- but tends to get more of a bloat ware and not anymore 99% stable. I had a few crashes with CS3: it usually would just close itself…
I think the practical end solution is to just hit [ctrl] + every 5 minutes, heck even I press it like every minute or so - I am grown up with that reflex. You could also check out versionCue that comes with Photoshop as it is something close to that (does backups, but no autosave or autobackup). But people hate it because…
There are several plugins that you can get if you want. Most of them cost $20 but I don't think thats much of a cost considering the time it takes to File->Save As and add a # to the end over time becomes probably about an hour worth of time and that is roughly what most artists charge lol.…
hmmm there is something important to understand here. "Autosave" is not a simple script doing a ctrl+S for you every X minutes. Interesting point of the "Save" features is about keeping history of your saved work. Then yes, to save automatically your file, but not on the same file. Imagine Photoshp crashes saving your…