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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Not saving your work before you lunch is akin to leaving your homework to the mercy of your dog.
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It's obviously a good standard practice, but it really depends on one's workflow.
I work on my projects 24 hours a day. I spend much of my time in WiFi cafes. When it's time to go to work, I get my laptop out again as soon as I get on the bus. I do the same thing when I'm in the break room at work. And on the bus home. And before I go to bed. And if I wake up in the middle of the night.
If I'm working on a project that requires going back and forth between Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Sigil, and maybe back and forth between various Photoshop files or epubs, I don't always have time to save every single file in every single program before I go to sleep - or when I suddenly discover that we've arrived at the last bus stop and I have about ten seconds to get off the bus.
And if I'm working with a really big Photoshop file that takes a while to save, then the situation is even more challenging.
In general, my Mac has been very reliable. If something really bad happens and I have to force close a program or, even worse, if my laptop crashes, the files are generally still there when I reopen it. Photoshop and Numbers are really good about that, and I can save all my Dreamweaver files instantaneously.
Of course, if you just write novels or pulp fiction and don't have to work with images or spreadsheets or do a lot of research, then you have the luxury of saving your Sigil file every ten seconds.