# Autosave for Lazy people

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/autosave-for-lazy-people/142461>\
**Category:** Grasshopper\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/autosave-for-lazy-people/142461 "2022-05-12T09:01:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/autosave-for-lazy-people/142461/1 "2022-05-12T09:01:06Z")

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Laptops, Windows OS, Humans + many other things in life are unreliable.  
I’m lazy when I’m creative. I hadn’t named my .gh file yet.  
Doesn’t matter because I’ve got autosave on right  
WRONG - my computer froze - borked when I was distracted on Amazon.  
Lost hours . . . Nothing has saved to my .gh autosave folder for 6 months ~since dec 2021  
I thought this had been addressed in Grasshopper and it was all good again?  
Am I forgetting some setting or permission somewhere? Doing something wrong?  
OK I should have named my .gh before starting to get the recovery files working but we’re not forced to so … Why isn’t autosave autosaving work ?