Auto Save Causes File Bloat

Mon, Apr 7, 2008

Bug

If your QuarkXPress 7 files are growing in size at a rapid rate, check to see if Auto Save is enabled.

Auto Save

If so, disable it. Quark is working on a fix.

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Jay Nelson - who has written 503 posts on Planet Quark.

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8 Comments For This Post

  1. Fritz Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Does this happen with every version, or just the latest 7.3.1?

  2. Jay Nelson Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    I’m not sure. Is there a reason to not use the latest version? Everyone I know is using 7.3.1.

  3. Fritz Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    I know quite a few people still using Quark 6, and I was curious to see if it would cause them problems as well.

  4. AnyFool Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    When I use AutoSave (with 6.5) on a networked server, the server’s antivirus software will occasionally “lock” the A$V file, and thus prevent the main Quark file from being opened.

    Anyone else have this problem, and able to get around it?

  5. Jay Nelson Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Fritz: the bug is in version 7.3.1. I’m not sure about previous versions.

  6. J3 Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    I just upgraded recently to 7.3.1 and am having to append every NEW file created in 7.3.1, not just ones created in earlier versions of quark opened in 7.3.1, to reduce the huge file sizes. Hope there is a fix soon if the newest problem is autosave, as this is way too time consuming to do on every file and I really want to keep autosave on.

  7. Jay Nelson Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    J3: Yep, Quark says Auto Save is the cause. For now you’ll either have to live with huge files or turn of Auto Save. How’s that for a rock and a hard place?

  8. J3 Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Bummer, but thanks. I have another issue with 7.3.1 also: I really hate “runaround” and in general quark preferences (no documents open), no matter how many times I go to Preferences >Default Print Layout (and Default Web Layout) > Tools, and then click on every single picture and text box individually, and click ok after modifying the runaround to “none”, the boxes in the next document I open still have runaround at least 50% of the time. The preference changes don’t seem to be taking hold, even if I close out of preferences and then reopen general preferences immediately. What’s going on? Am I doing something wrong - do I need to click on something besides “ok” to keep the box preferences as I set them?

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