It's a way of restricting the user's autonomy how to handle his work. Autosave is surely uselful for those who like it but there should always be an option to disable it. And such an option does not exist, at least not for the module "Notes" (which is the most important for my needs).
I would like to refer to two older threads (from 2017 and 2014):
A)
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19783
Here jsc wrote:
He describes exactly my experience (concerning in my case notes instead of tasks).
PeCe confirmed the mandatory character of autosave:
By the way: Not all database programs save automatically (respectively they don't without the user's consent).PeCe wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:34 pm The autosave is an option that prevents data-loss because of power failure or complete crashes of the system.
EPIM is in general a big database program and databases automatic save data. They don't ask (like Word or Excel) if you want to save data. Even when you use the task-manager and forcefully close/end EPIM the data you have entered is still there.
And he mentioned the methods which has the user to correct his last changes:
Quite cumbersome, unefficient and in many cases too extensive by eliminating too many changes.
B)
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15198
Here ManXP described the problem precisely:
With this he referred to the misleading description in the Options:ManXP wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2014 1:31 pm Is it possible to REALLY disable autosave? If I do something, the tool automatically saves all the changes in database, so if I do something wrong (delete some text by accident, etc.) my old (correct) information is gone. If the tool instantly saves everything, what's the point of Autosave feature? It's enabled by default and can't be disabled, so why there's an option for it?
As depicted in the image above, I have unchecked both boxes: "Autosave data every ... minutes" and "Autosave when minimizing". But nevertheless my changes are always here after the next start of the program. That's confusing. And only by studying the above linked two threads I understood what happens.
jsc mentioned it also:
Max wrote:
Obviously the "Tasks" module too (as written by jsc). But in any case nothing of this can be seen in the above settings for Autosave (nor in the Help file, as far as I studied it).
So I see two problems with Autosave:
- The missing possibility to turn it off.
- The misleading presentation of "options" (that in reality at least for certain modules do not exist) within the settings.
As these issues are known already for some years by the above threads, I assume there is obviously no intention to change things. Therefore I thought that it makes no sense to write about them in the Support or the Suggestions Forum and I posted my comment here in the place for General Discussion.
Thanks for reading it.