Hi Olly Pekelharing,

You can move the default location of the "autosave" to a different location if you take the whole path: C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Studio 2021\Autosave.

Please see some smart workaround in this article: https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/communityknowledge?articleName=000017192 

Hope this helps?

Oana Nagy said:

You can move the default location of the "autosave" to a different location if you take the whole path

What does that mean? Take the whole path and do what?

Nicholas Quaintmere said:

Not a plausible solution, I'm afraid Jerzy. My "Documents" folder is in OneDrive and Studio will not let you change the location.

So move it out there. I know MS tends to put a hand on all your data, but I would simply move the Documents and other folders out of OneDrvie.

And the problem is caused by MS updates, so this is why it came "from heaven".

Clearly, that would work, but equally clearly there is a reason why my Documents folder is in OneDrive, i.e. it contains all the files (e.g. my documents) that I need to back up. The simplest solution would be if one were able to choose an alternative location for the Autosave folder, but alas that is not envisioned by those that decide such things.
Windows updated again today, maybe the probably has magically disappeared. I'll have to check that later...

Nicholas Quaintmere 

There are much better options for backup than OneDrive. It belongs to Microsoft and one has no control on the data stored there. I have all my data local on a NAS. Backup is done sequential on 3 further NAS. This is IMO much more secure than any cloud solution.

That may well be the case, but I work in a university and they have decided to use it.

Nicholas Quaintmere 

I'd be very interested to know which one?  We have a fairly extensive University program and we provide all of them with free technology for teaching.  This being the case they should be on 2024 already, and have access to Trados Team, and have access to a Language Weaver setup that is beyond the reach of freelance translators (normally... as this is most likely financially prohibitive).

Unless you only use Trados for commercial purposes and don't actually teach the technology?

Hi Paul,

I work as the university's translator (German university, with a fairly large requirement for texts in English, e.g. website and so on). So not really commercial, but also not teaching.

Nicholas Quaintmere 

Can the live sync of OneDrive be switched off? And have you tried to delete the AutoSave folder alltogether? Studio will recreate it and then might work with no problem.

Hi Jerzy, I can't test it right now, because the problem seems to have magically disappeared. ‍♂️

Maybe something to do with the Windows update I just carried out, who knows? If the problem crops up again, I will definitely try that option (i.e. deleting the Autosave folder). Thanks for all your help.

Haha, I counted my chickens too early. Problem is still there. Deleting the folder seems to work for the first save (CTRL+S). But any subsequent save causes a crash. Looks like I'll be switching Autosave off again. Despite that, thanks for your suggestions. 

Hi, Nicholas, I've got the same problem with Trados 2024, never had it with Trados 2022. I don't use OneDrive, however, my projects and TM/TB are saved in my personal folder on my university's intranet. So when working from home, via VPN, this issue occurs more often than when working at my office at university, where I'm connected via LAN. I watched my autosave folder (had it set to autosave every minute), and noticed that the crash occurs whenever my VPN connection flickers for a millisecond while I hit Ctrl + S to manually save my translation. Apparently, deleting the autosave files on my laptop works perfectly well, while saving the file on my intranet folder does not because of this minute intranet connection issue. So, I guess, at least in my case, it's just a matter of unfortunate mistiming.

Hi, Nicholas, I've got the same problem with Trados 2024, never had it with Trados 2022. I don't use OneDrive, however, my projects and TM/TB are saved in my personal folder on my university's intranet. So when working from home, via VPN, this issue occurs more often than when working at my office at university, where I'm connected via LAN. I watched my autosave folder (had it set to autosave every minute), and noticed that the crash occurs whenever my VPN connection flickers for a millisecond while I hit Ctrl + S to manually save my translation. Apparently, deleting the autosave files on my laptop works perfectly well, while saving the file on my intranet folder does not because of this minute intranet connection issue. So, I guess, at least in my case, it's just a matter of unfortunate mistiming.

Hi Susanne! That's a point I never thought of. I actually am in my home office working through a VPN. Maybe that has something to do with it. I think I'm just going to stick with manual saves for now. The TM saves everything anyway, so the risk isn't that great.

BTW, my autosave path is "C:\Users\sr37begy\AppData\Roaming\Trados\Trados Studio\Studio18\AutoSave" and NOT "C:\Users\sr37begy\Documents\Studio 2021\AutoSave". Don't ask me why, I sure didn't set it up like that. I faithfully upgraded from Traods Studio 2019 all the way to 2024, however, I migrated my licence December 2024 to my new laptop, in case this makes a difference.

Now THAT is interesting! Does anyone know why that is? Is it because one of the developers thought it would be a better place to put it?

 Nicholas Quaintmere Susanne Rieg 

Nicholas Quaintmere said:

Is it because one of the developers thought it would be a better place to put it?

Not one of the developers... we don't work like that.  But it was a change made to address the problems resulting from working with OneDrive.

Well, whoever did it, I hope they implement it in 2022.