# Does Pinegrow 7.6 Pro Have autosave?
**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217
**Category:** Pinegrow PRO
**Created:** [July 6, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217 "2023-07-06T06:51:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@achalk](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/achalk)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/1 "2023-07-06T06:51:46Z")
Oddly I cannot find it.
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### Author:  [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/2 "2023-07-06T08:42:24Z")
Not an automatic save but this is available.
If enabled Pinegrow saves copy of existing HTML or CSS file to \_pgbackup folder before overwriting the original. You can turn this off if you’re using source control to keep track of file revisions.
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### Author:  [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/3 "2023-07-06T08:52:09Z")
While autosave in a dev tool can be convenient, there are at least 2 reasons why it may be undesirable:
1. Unwanted Changes: You may be experimenting with your code and not necessarily wanting to save every change you make. Autosave functionality might result in these experimental or unwanted changes accidentally being saved and hard to revert.
2. Version Control Conflicts: If you use a version control system such as Git, an autosave can save changes that you didn’t intend to commit, resulting in unwanted changes in your version history or conflicts with other developers’ work.
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### Author:  [@sitestreet](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/sitestreet)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/4 "2023-07-06T09:39:14Z")
> [@Emmanuel](#):
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> Version Control Conflicts
Putting \_pgbackup into the gitignore file prevents this, though, doesn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/5 "2023-07-06T09:45:22Z")
There are undoubtedly as many arguments for as against the integration of this feature, but throughout the many discussions that surrounded the development of Pinegrow, it was decided not to offer it.
Note: When using the [Pinegrow extension for VSCODE](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Pinegrow.pinegrow-vscode), we also recommend disabling this feature.
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### Author:  [@achalk](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/achalk)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/6 "2023-07-06T12:34:36Z")
Thanks. I will put in a feature request. I have never seen an IDE/editor without timed backup. There is no conflict with source control.
- A
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### Author:  [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/does-pinegrow-7-6-pro-have-autosave/8217/7 "2023-07-06T13:30:33Z")
> [@achalk](#):
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> There is no conflict with source control.
I get your point, as long as you master your source control tools, still, there are other possible situations where this is dangerous and so our current choice.