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Cocoa NSDocument: getting autosave to work

Documentation simply states that setting setAutosavingDelay to anything > 0 on the shared doc controller should do it, but after calling 

[[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController] setAutosavingDelay:2.0];

in my controller, autosave doesn't seem to work: I neither see anything in ~/Library/Autosave Information/, nor is

[[[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController] currentDocument] autosavedContentsFileURL]

initialized.

Note that in my app, normal loading and saving work fine (keyedarchivers, nscoding-based class for my docs, etc).

Solution

  • Have you overridden -updateChangeCount: at all? I'm pretty certain that Apple's implementation is the code that starts up the autosave timer. Also, what if you experiment with a longer timer?