NowSave saves your work automatically and protects you from losing data because of unexpected system crashes.
• Customized automatic saving
NowSave can be set to save your work automatically after a specified number of minutes, keystrokes and/or mouse clicks. So if you forget to save your work manually and experience an unexpected system crash, all your hard work is safe no matter what type of application you were using.
• Capturing keystrokes
As an extra measure of protection, NowSave can also record your every keystroke with its Key Capture feature. If you have NowSave saving automatically every five minutes but your system crashes three minutes after the last save, you can still lose your unsaved work. With the Key Capture function, every keystroke you type is saved into a special Saved Work file; this makes it possible to reconstruct your work when necessary. This feature also comes in handy when you’re working in an application where you can’t save your work, like QuickMail.
Here’s How!
• Customize per application
You can automatically save your work in three ways: after a specified number of minutes (works well for word processing applications), keystrokes and/or mouse clicks (great for graphics and spreadsheet applications). Follow these simple steps to see how:
1) Open the NowSave control panel.
2) Choose an application with which you want NowSave to be active.
3) After adding an application to the list, specify how you want to save your work.
4) Close the control panel.
You’ll never have to worry about lost work again!
• Idle-time save
If you don’t want to be interrupted by automatic saving, you can choose how long your Macintosh must be idle before NowSave saves your work. Follow these simple steps to see how:
1) Open the NowSave control panel and click the “Preferences…” button.
2) Edit the “Wait for __ seconds” entry for idle time and increase that number to 10 seconds or more.
3) Close the control panel.
Now you will not be interrupted if you stop working for just a moment, even when a save is due.
• Key Capture
For extra protection from data loss, you can have NowSave save every keystroke you type. Follow these simple steps to see how:
1) Open the NowSave control panel and click the “Preferences…” button.
2) Next click the “Key Capture…” button, and in the dialog box that opens, select the “On” radio button for Key Capture. The function is now turned on. You can examine the settings in this dialog box (and other options by clicking “Options”) and customize them if you want, but the default settings are already configured to make Key Capture easy to use.
3) Click “OK” until you’re back in the control panel.
4) Close the control panel.
Now, no matter what program you’re using, NowSave will store every keystroke you type in a special “Saved Work” file maintained in the System Folder. If you should crash and lose your work, you can open this file, copy the text it contains, and then recover the document you were working on.
