Excel autosave replacement - Autobackup

[filzef]

Excel autosave is very limited and annoyng since one is always having
to choose between saving or not the file at the middle of the work.

Please find in this link an autosave replacement which do the job of
keeping you safe from loosing your excel work.

It is a very small and easy to install program. It is freeware.

See it in http://filzef.googlepages.com/

 

[ShaneDevenshire]

You must be using an early version of Excel, in the latest versions (2002 and
later I believe) Auto Save does not prompt you, is automatic, saves to a
different file than the original, and can be set to save with any interval
you choose.

What extra features does one need that this free add in provides?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Shane

Excel 2002 and later does not have an AutoSave.

It has an AutoRecovery feature that is useful only if Excel or your workbook
crashes.

Otherwise, the temp saved file is deleted when Excel is closed.

No incremental saves are made as occured with the older AutoSave add-in.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[filzef]

Thanks for your reply.

I understand your point of view, but to me is much more pratical and
safe to have several copies of my work saved automatically in a folder
i specify and with a time interval I specifiy.

You can in fact rely in autorecovery (not autosave, as it overwrites
the original file), but I already experienced crashes and then tried
to find the temp file and was not sucessful. Maybe it was something I
made wrong, but i honestly don't like to have my backup copies as a
temp file that excel creates or deletes whenever it wants. If it is my
work that is being protected, I prefer to have control of the process.

As this program keeps several backup copies in the disc, sometimes I
use it as a kind of "undo button" that allows me to go back in time
for example half an our, if my last changes to the file were not very
inspired.

There are several programs that try to do this job, but I didn't found
any with freeware license. You also have for example AutosaveXL, but
it's shareware.

 

[Gord Dibben]

For free the closest you can get would be an add-in.

Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe
which doen't alert before saving.

http://www.jkp-ads.com/download.asp

(look for AutoSafe.zip)

It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a
user selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups
(or puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the
backups from the recycle bin.


Gord