Lotus Domino AutoSave : {autosave.ntf}

Why? Power problem , Windows may crash or hang and notes may crash.
AutoSave is not enabled by default when you install Notes7.0.User must enable it through new User preference dialog.

 These AutoSave user preferences options corresponds to three variables in the client’s Notes.ini file.

Auto_Save_Enable=1    0-- autosave is disabled
Auto_Save_Interval=12   -- in Minutes (can be from 1 to 999 min)
AUTO_SAVE_USER,Admin Seven/Seven=as_ASeven.nsf

New Form Properties option that determines whether or not form can be autosaved.Only documents created from forms with Allow AutoSave selected can be autosaved.

Note: In Notes/Domino 7.0, the only shipping template form that is enabled for AutoSave is the Memo form.

• This timer starts only when you modify the documents , this prevents disk activity when you’re merely reviewing the document. After the interval passes, AutoSave performs a quiet save without firing any events
• When the AutoSave operation is done, message appears on status bar. 
• If you save the document, cancel out of it ,or email it, document is deleted from the autosave copy to save space in AutoSave database. 
• We can force an AutoSave at any time,To do this go to menu File ->AutoSave and then click AutoSave now. This forces an immediate AutoSave
• AutoSave DB is medium encrypted with user’s key.
• Naming convention prepend ‘as’ i.e as_RAmruth.nsf

 

With this naming convention conflicts will happen such as John Smith , Jane Smith, Jon Smith and so on, To prevent this , a entry in user’s Notes.ini file is created
AUTO_SAVE_USER,admin7/AOI7=as_admin7.nsf
If an autosave database with the name as_RAmruth.nsf already exists, the number 1 would be appended to the user name eg as_RAmruth1.nsf
 
The fields in the Recover Unsaved Documents window shows – the time the document was autosaved, the title of the document, the pathname/filename of original DB, and the name of the server on which the DB resides.

AutoSave options using policies: using Desktop/Setup setting document in Preferences – Basics tab