Autosave and auto-preserve question

[Cassel]

In older versions of PSP, auto-save would automatically save a copy of the work in progress every X minutes (depending on what was set by the user) and overwriting the previous version, including the original if not working on a copy of it.

In PSPX4, auto-preserve added the functionality of saving a copy of the original to avoid overwriting it, but it also has autosave setting.

Questions :
- what does the autosave do except save the image when changing from Edit to Manage to Adjust?
- does autosave automatically save a copy (even if overwriting) of the work in progress?
- if so, where do we set how frequently a save should be?

[LeviFiction]

In X5, it's File -> Preferences -> Auto-save settings.

Edit Workspace tab you can set it to Auto-save every 5 or 15 minutes.

With X4....I have no idea.

[Tadjio]

I looked at this issue when X4 came out.
Corel admitted they had 'dropped' the original AutoSave feature in X4 but on my insistence agreed to restore it in X5.

The AutoSave in X4 is purely for Adjust Mode.

[Cassel]

Thanks for the X5 info.

Interestingly, in X4, when i go File > Preference > Autosave, i get a window saying

Enable autosave in the Adjust workspace

And i get that even when i am in the Adjust workspace. Am i missing something?