Faster Autosaves

Autosaves, especially with files that have large raster's mapped, take foreever - even with SSD.

I agree. Just got an SSD hoping for faster autosaves only to find out that it's max that's causing the slowness. Am I wrong or does saving the file manually seem to take less time than the autosaves? It seems like there should just be a script that hits "save copy as" every few minutes so you can disable Max's autosave all together.

A workaround might be to break up your big file in several smaller files. I sometimes do that especially when there's a lot of busy stuff that's not going to change much. Then I just merge it periodically when necessary.

^ I do that too.

I tend to split models and make fairly extensive use of XRefs on large projects.

Not that I use it, but one solution is to map a shortcut for "Incremental save" and turn-off autosave.

Russian roulette, but, should be plenty faster.

I actually do get pretty fast savings, but now you got me curious to see if there is indeed speed difference between manual save and autosave.