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7.10.1 Options

#### 7.10.1.1 File/Save Options

Here you can adjust, how PhotoLine handles saving.

If Create backup file when saving is activated, on saving a document the original file won‘t be overwritten. It will be renamed and on Windows "bak" will be appended to its filename extender. For example the original file "test.pld" will be renamed to "test.pldbak". On macOS a "~" will be appended to the filename, so "test.pld" will become "test~.pld". If there is already a backup file, the existing backup file will be deleted.

Save a PLD file additionally is a safety feature. If turned on, PhotoLine will additionally be saving an equally named PLD file along with the file format, that you have chosen. This way you can ensure, that the composition of your document will stay intact, even if you are using a simple image file format like JPEG. If your document could be saved without any loss, the PLD file will not be created and an already existing version will be deleted. Accordingly on opening a file PhotoLine will check for a PLD file with the same name and load that if possible. If the modification dates of the given file and the PLD file don’t match, you will be warned.

You can define, whether you will be warned, if the chosen file format can’t handle all information contained in a document. The warning lists up all features, that are lost on saving. But PhotoLine tries to save the document as correct as possible. Optically there is often no difference. But it can happen, that text layers are converted to image layers or the result is a single image layer.

Another option is, whether to work with the reduced data after saving. Without request the data stay the same.

Additionally you can define a color, that is used as replacement for transparency, if the given file format doesn’t support transparency.

Finally you can determine a file format as default file format used for saving. You can choose between PLD, TIFF, JPEG, GIF and PDF. Furthermore you can choose to always use the previously used file format.

But note, that only the PLD-format ensures, that a document is saved without loosing information. Only if you are saving a file as PLD, you can edit it the same way after loading like you did before saving.

With Auto Save you can set if and how often PhotoLine automatically saves an edited document while working. Automatic saving does not overwrite the original file; instead, a copy is created in the settings directory (chapter 1.6) in the "AutoSave" subdirectory. If PhotoLine should crash against expectation, you will be offered to load the AutoSave files at the next program start. They are then deleted at the next program end. If you are working with very large files, it may be necessary to turn off Auto Save to avoid delays.