Autosave Preferences
If you're a writer, your words are priceless. Modern computers are incredibly reliable, but power outages, software bugs, or even pets playing near a power cord can derail the best of intentions. We don't want you to lose any of your work, so Z-Write supports two kinds of automatic saving technology.
Autosave
Use this feature to have Z-Write automatically save your document at regular intervals. You set the time between saves in minutes. Set it to zero if you don't want Z-Write to save your document automatically.
Autobackup
Z-Write can do more than just periodically save the document you're working on; it can also save a backup copy. You can set how often it does this, in 15 minutes intervals. The backups are stored in a folder you designate (click the "Select Backup Folder" to choose a folder).
Backup items are named the same as your original file, with a number appended on the end. You can specify the maximum number of backups per document. When that many copies of the backup file exist, the oldest backup is deleted and replaced by a new backup file. For example, if you specified 10 copies as the maximum, when "Novel 010" is saved, the next backup with be "Novel 001".
You can use this feature to control how many backups of each document you save. If you modify your documents only occasionally, a small number of backups -- like 5 or 10 -- might contain a week's worth of revisions. If you edit your documents heavily or your older versions are important to you, you might prefer to save a larger number of backups. The more backups, the older the oldest backup.