Auto Save preferences

Last updated on 19 October 2025

Learn more about the Auto Save preferences in Adobe Premiere Pro.

The Preferences dialog box displays the Auto Save panels with options such as Automatically save projects, Maximum Project Versions, and more. — Configure Auto Save settings for Local Projects and Team Projects using the Auto Save preferences.

UI option	Function
Automatically save projects	By default, Premiere Pro automatically saves your project every five minutes and retains the last twenty project file versions on the hard disk. You can revert to a previously saved version at any time. Archiving many project iterations consumes relatively little disk space because project files are much smaller than source video files. It’s best to save project files to the same drive as your application. Archived files are saved in the Premiere Pro Auto-Save folder.
Automatically Save Every	Automatically save Projects and type the number of minutes you would like between saves.
Maximum Project Versions	Enter the number of versions of a project file you want to save. For example, if you type 10, Premiere Pro saves the ten most recent versions. When you specify auto-save to occur at regular intervals, Premiere Pro auto-saves a project on detecting changes to the project file. Note: The auto-save occurs irrespective of whether you manually save the changes to the project or not. Earlier, Premiere Pro would not execute auto-save if you manually saved within the interval setting. If the system goes idle for a period beyond the interval setting, Premiere Pro forces an auto-save.
Save backup project to Creative Cloud	Note: This feature is no longer supported for Creative Cloud individual accounts. Auto-save your projects directly to your Creative Cloud-based storage. When Premiere Pro auto-saves a project, an "auto-save" directory is created in your Creative Cloud online storage, where all the backed-up projects are stored.
Auto Save also saves the current project(s)	When this setting is enabled, Auto Save creates an archived copy of your current projects, but also saves the current working project. This setting is off by default. Auto saved versions have a suffix with the date and time it was saved (yy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss) appended to the project name (for example, ProjectName-2018-08-31_09-53-41.prproj). When an auto save occurs, Premiere Pro creates a new backup project file and adds it to the auto-save folder as an emergency project backup. This file is always the latest saved version of that project. Here are some of the characteristics of the emergency back project file: The backup file has the same name as the project, but it does not have any suffix. Premiere Pro produces only one emergency backup file per project, and it is overwritten at each auto-save interval and when you save the current project.
Location	Set the location for the Team Projects auto-save data files.

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