Can Auto-Save Be Stopped?

Gsptlsnz · 17 Nov 2012, 02:36 AM

Is there any way to turn off auto-save?

**Shelded** · 17 Nov 2012, 08:40 AM

Don't compose using the web interface?

janusz · 17 Nov 2012, 03:00 PM

Just curious: why do you dislike the Auto-Save, which only kicks in when something nasty would happen otherwise (from experience: close the browser window by mistake)?

Prognathous · 18 Nov 2012, 06:53 AM

Why disable it? Because it's been broken for years and Fastmail don't seem to care to fix it. They should at least offer a way to disable the wretched thing.

Prog.

**Shelded** · 18 Nov 2012, 12:26 PM

P, you appear to be the only person suffering the malady. They cannot duplicate the problem. That's why they would ignore it. There are bigger truly broken things about that interface that they seem unable to deal with. Even though I sympathize with your problem it doesn't seem even to be a big deal to you: what's some excess clutter in your draft folder?

Gsptlsnz · 19 Nov 2012, 12:10 AM

Excess clutter means extra time wasted deleting garbage files.

**Shelded** · 19 Nov 2012, 12:40 AM

True, but select all and delete is effective. I'm sympathetic to the problem, but it can't be duplicated by the developers and it hardly seems to be the worst of the huge number of problems this product has.

Gsptlsnz · 19 Nov 2012, 03:04 AM

The problem can't be duplicated? The problem is how to turn off this feature.

Maybe blocking j.script would do it...

**Shelded** · 19 Nov 2012, 05:37 AM

If you read the link to the wiki earlier, you can see how Prognathous suffers it and Rob can't recreate it. It does not affect me, either. I have found the feature helpful more than not.

17 Nov 2012, 02:36 AM	#1
Gsptlsnz Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: 5th Dimension Posts: 180	Can Auto-Save Be Stopped? Is there any way to turn off auto-save?

17 Nov 2012, 08:40 AM	#2
Shelded Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA Northwest Posts: 3,849	Don't compose using the web interface?

17 Nov 2012, 03:00 PM	#3
janusz The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: EU Posts: 4,945	Just curious: why do you dislike the Auto-Save, which only kicks in when something nasty would happen otherwise (from experience: close the browser window by mistake)?

18 Nov 2012, 06:53 AM	#4
Prognathous Master of the @ Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 1,060	Why disable it? Because it's been broken for years and Fastmail don't seem to care to fix it. They should at least offer a way to disable the wretched thing. Prog.

18 Nov 2012, 12:26 PM	#5
Shelded Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA Northwest Posts: 3,849	P, you appear to be the only person suffering the malady. They cannot duplicate the problem. That's why they would ignore it. There are bigger truly broken things about that interface that they seem unable to deal with. Even though I sympathize with your problem it doesn't seem even to be a big deal to you: what's some excess clutter in your draft folder?

19 Nov 2012, 12:10 AM	#6
Gsptlsnz Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: 5th Dimension Posts: 180	Excess clutter means extra time wasted deleting garbage files.

19 Nov 2012, 12:40 AM	#7
Shelded Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA Northwest Posts: 3,849	True, but select all and delete is effective. I'm sympathetic to the problem, but it can't be duplicated by the developers and it hardly seems to be the worst of the huge number of problems this product has.

19 Nov 2012, 03:04 AM	#8
Gsptlsnz Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: 5th Dimension Posts: 180	The problem can't be duplicated? The problem is how to turn off this feature. Maybe blocking j.script would do it...

19 Nov 2012, 05:37 AM	#9
Shelded Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA Northwest Posts: 3,849	If you read the link to the wiki earlier, you can see how Prognathous suffers it and Rob can't recreate it. It does not affect me, either. I have found the feature helpful more than not.